Market and Monastery

Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora

Prista Ratanapruck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-845-5 (ISBN)

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In the established historiography of trade in Asia, the emergence of Western trading empires invariably triggered the decline and dispersal of old trading networks. In this transregional ethnographic history of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck provides counter evidence, elucidating how kinship, social, and religious institutions have facilitated the expansion of Manangi trade across South and Southeast Asia. Expounding on how social and moral values shape capital production, accumulation, and redistribution, Market and Monastery examines the entwining relationship between trade and the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, ultimately illuminating an intriguing form of capitalism.

Prista Ratanapruck received her B.A. in Economics and PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Integrated Development Studies in Nepal, she has previously taught History at Rutgers University, as well as Anthropology at the University of Virginia, Chiangmai University in Thailand, and the Nepa School of Sciences and Humanities in Nepal. Her recent publications include journal articles in JESHO, Encounter, and in the co-edited volume, Radical Egalitarianism (Fordham 2011).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Nodes Abroad : The Social Geography of the Manangi Trade Community

Chapter 1. A Community of Traders

Chapter 2. Manangi Rooming Houses Abroad

Part II: Local and Trans-Local Economies and Societies

Chapter 3. From Routes to Roots

Chapter 4. Kinship Arrangements and Economic Expansion

Chapter 5. Reinvestments in Nepal

Part III: Nodes at Home: Institutionalized Religious and Social Gatherings

Chapter 6. Money and Labor in Spiritual Transformation

Chapter 7. Pooling Resources for Work and Play

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	43 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-845-8 / 1805398458
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-845-5 / 9781805398455
Zustand	Neuware