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Saving and Being Safe Away from Home

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This book gives a comprehensive overview of Savings and insurance associations in Ethiopia and its diaspora.
  • 24 September 2024
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Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive formal financial institutions. The contributors to this volume give an extensive overview of these associations in Ethiopia and its diaspora and, at the same time, ask what the activities within these associations tell us about their members' future aspirations and ideas of a »good life«.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 230
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837671278
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
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Kim Glück (PhD) is a social anthropologist specialising in Ethiopian studies based at the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.
Sophia Thubauville (PhD) is a social anthropologist at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Iddir funerary insurance as uncaptured civil society 27
Informal savings and insurance associations 45
Wijjo and kochoo 63
The activities, benefits, and challenges of Awada women's self-help groups in empowering women in Sidama region, southern Ethiopia 71
'Wealth in people' 93
Solidarity until the end 113
Islands of hope 127
"Trust a man after you bury him" 153
Savings (equb) and insurance (iddir) associations of Eritreans in Germany 167
Spatial manifestation of self-governance groups 185
Caring for the future 205
Author's biographies 227