Traders, Informal Trade and Markets between the Caucasus and China / Politics and History in Central Asia (PDF)

Dr. Fehlings' book is an important step towards a historical economic anthropology of everyday economic action, because she succeeds excellently in making this everyday action transparent in its diversity and its historical plasticity.

Werner Plumpe, Professor of Economic History, Goethe University, Germany

Why and how do Georgian and Chinese traders travel across Eurasia without any formal institutional support and what consequences are there of such 'globalization from below' for economy, markets, sociality and materiality?

Susanne Fehlings' ethnography skilfully explores the structural conditions, background and everyday lives of such traders and businessmen, scrutinizes their activities, narratives and logics of action and offers a rich anthropological discussion embedded in historical, legal and political contexts.

Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, Docent for Social Anthropology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Susanne Fehlings is a Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and a Senior Researcher at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her main interests include economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, urban anthropology and topics related to ethnobotany. Her regional focus is post-Soviet Eurasia and the South Caucasus.