The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The formal side of informality: non-state trading practices and local Uyghur ethnography
Original language description
This chapter approaches ‘informal’ modes of organization among Uyghur bazaar traders in Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan in a complex context of increasing state regulatory measures and strong social networks. It captures this organization as a ‘formal side of informality’. The practices comprising it are deemed ‘informal’ from a state-centred perspective, as they are not regulated by the state law or bureaucracy, but they still display a non-state formalization in the sense of being codified, regular and predictable to the traders. The chapter explores areas and examples of such ‘informal’ formality in the bazaar trade that are built around notions of morality, piousness, pride and shame. It pays special attention to oral contracts, purchase on credit, go-betweens and the status of profit. The chapter draws on participant observation and interviews in Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan as well as on descriptions of trade morals and trade customs in ethnographic and folkloristic publications by local Uyghur scholars in Xinjiang.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
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Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Informal Markets and Trade in Central Asia and the Caucasus
ISBN
978-1-03-219581-0
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
46-62
Number of pages of the book
168
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon
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