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INTRODUCTION: POPULAR ECONOMIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2012

Elizabeth Hull  and
Deborah James
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African economies have long been a matter of concern to anthropologists, not least in the pages of Africa. These economies are situated, somewhat contradictorily, between global settings of financialized capitalism on the one hand and impoverished local arenas where cash-based economic transfers predominate on the other. The more such economies appear to be tied to wider global arenas and operations that place them beyond the reach of ordinary people, the more necessary it is to explore the logics and decisions that tie them inexorably to specific everyday settings.

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Africa , Volume 82 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Popular Economies in South Africa , February 2012 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © International African Institute 2012

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