The role of money and alternative formal financial systems
The role of money and alternative formal financial systems
- March 3, 2013
- Taylor Nelms, anthropology graduate student, is featured in Pagina|12 (Argentina) March 3, 2013
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From Pagina|12:
Taylor Nelms wants a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California
with his research on dollarization and popular and solidarity economy in Ecuador.
Through an ethnographic approach to monetary and organizational practices of state
actors, urban retailers and partners Savings and Loan, dug into the imagery that these
actors have on their everyday economic practices. Q: How does the circulation of money
in the solidarity funds? A: My field work is to investigate the intersection of money,
the right of law and institutions, which are of three types: formal financial institutions
(banks or cooperatives), state institutions and what I call everyday or vernacular
institutions. I wanted to know the role of money in the establishment and maintenance
of local institutions such as the type of relationship that people establish with
local institutions, both as formal, ie banks, affecting the use of money in their
daily lives those of Ecuadorians in particular.
For the full story, please visit http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/cash/17-6655-2013-03-03.html (Spanish version).
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