From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion

Martin Fotta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. His key areas of research are economy and value, ethnic economies, Nomadic strategies, masculinity and gender, money, credit and debt, cash transfers, and constructions of ethnicity.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Consolidation of the Cigano Moneylending Niche in the Early Twenty-first Century.- Part I: Settlements, Personhood and the Centrality of Households.- Chapter 2: ‘There are Ciganos in the Town’.- Chapter 3: Household Fixity as a Process.- Chapter 4: Makers of their Futures.- Part II: Assimilation of  the Local Economic Environment into Calon Sociality.- Chapter 5: Deferred Payments and the Expanding Moment of Caloninity.- Chapter 6: Lending Money to Jurons.- Chapter 7: Moneylending Niche as Householding.- Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Crisis, The Stranger, and The State.