This social-anthropological study, focusing on urban Indonesia, examines a variety of financial self-help organizations (arisan and simpan pinjam) as instruments for dealing with financial difficulties related to illness, death, and unemployment. The author devotes ample attention to the embedding of these associations, and their participants, in a changing socio-economic and cultural environment, and to the important issues of agency, exclusion, trust, and social conflict. The book not only explains the workings of these fascinating collective arrangements, but also provides an interesting window on living conditions and social relations in an Indonesian urban community.
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-90-6718-240-9 (9789067182409)
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Hotze Lont is an anthropologist who obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. He later worked at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and was affiliated with the International Institute of Asian Studies in Amsterdam. At present, he is conducting research for Partos, the professional association for Dutch NGOs.
