Caroline Schuster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Schuster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuster |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUSTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Matters of Life and Death: Kin-work at Funerals
This article draws on queer and feminist social anthropological epistemologies in order to sketch out a methodological framework for the interpretation of archaeological data from funerary contexts. Funerary assemblages have ongoing significance in archaeological models of identity and social structure, including one’s status, gender, cosmological beliefs, etc. Biomolecular analyses of human remains are a major source of data about the past and a…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Gender and Covid‐19
Feminist insights have already played an important role in our rapidly developing understanding of COVID‐19. Intersectional research has drawn attention to the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women of color—particularly in the care industry and essential services—as well as the amplified discrimination faced by LGBTQI+ people. Understanding the pandemic as a gendered catastrophe builds outward from feminist anthropological research, th…
Subprime Empire: On the In-Betweenness of Finance
In the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis, much of the debate has been over whom to blame: reckless speculative finance or irresponsible (often low-income) borrowers. This essay takes up this set of moral arguments about what the poor can and should be able to afford by examining subprime logics at a global scale: subprime empire. Predatory lending in heartland America and development-oriented microcredit in places such as India and Pa…
The Indebted Wage: Putting Financial Products to Work in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area
This article focuses on what I will call the "indebted wage": the process through which wage labor is transformed into financial assets and new forms of accumulation. I begin with the observation that many Paraguayan families work in order to channel money into debt-based investments. This invites a conceptual shift: can we extend the wage relationships outward from a language of exploitation and into a language of indebtedness as well? I track t…
Spies like us
The discipline of anthropology recoils instinctively at the idea that its researchers' labor might contribute to the national security state; other disciplines celebrate the same contributions as evidence of policy impact. In this article, we examine the seductions of espionage for professionally vulnerable (untenured) researchers that employ ethnographic methods but are operating in the shadow of market incentives and the Global War on Terror. W…
Comparative projects and the limits of choice: Ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay
In recent years, microfinance – the suite of financial products offered to the poor – has been widely adopted in international development policy. Organizations around the world have replicated this model successfully. This essay takes the comparative case more explicitly to read against the tendency to understand microfinance as the globally institutionalized and realized norm, and local unruly credit economies as the exception. We go beyond com…
Spies like us
The discipline of anthropology recoils instinctively at the idea that its researchers' labor might contribute to the national security state; other disciplines celebrate the same contributions as evidence of policy impact. In this article, we examine the seductions of espionage for professionally vulnerable (untenured) researchers that employ ethnographic methods but are operating in the shadow of market incentives and the Global War on Terror. W…
Subprime Empire: On the In-Betweenness of Finance
In the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis, much of the debate has been over whom to blame: reckless speculative finance or irresponsible (often low-income) borrowers. This essay takes up this set of moral arguments about what the poor can and should be able to afford by examining subprime logics at a global scale: subprime empire. Predatory lending in heartland America and development-oriented microcredit in places such as India and Pa…
Comparative projects and the limits of choice: Ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay
In recent years, microfinance – the suite of financial products offered to the poor – has been widely adopted in international development policy. Organizations around the world have replicated this model successfully. This essay takes the comparative case more explicitly to read against the tendency to understand microfinance as the globally institutionalized and realized norm, and local unruly credit economies as the exception. We go beyond com…
The Indebted Wage: Putting Financial Products to Work in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area
This article focuses on what I will call the "indebted wage": the process through which wage labor is transformed into financial assets and new forms of accumulation. I begin with the observation that many Paraguayan families work in order to channel money into debt-based investments. This invites a conceptual shift: can we extend the wage relationships outward from a language of exploitation and into a language of indebtedness as well? I track t…
Comparative projects and the limits of choice: Ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay
In recent years, microfinance – the suite of financial products offered to the poor – has been widely adopted in international development policy. Organizations around the world have replicated this model successfully. This essay takes the comparative case more explicitly to read against the tendency to understand microfinance as the globally institutionalized and realized norm, and local unruly credit economies as the exception. We go beyond com…
Spies like us
The discipline of anthropology recoils instinctively at the idea that its researchers' labor might contribute to the national security state; other disciplines celebrate the same contributions as evidence of policy impact. In this article, we examine the seductions of espionage for professionally vulnerable (untenured) researchers that employ ethnographic methods but are operating in the shadow of market incentives and the Global War on Terror. W…
The Indebted Wage: Putting Financial Products to Work in Paraguay's Tri-Border Area
This article focuses on what I will call the "indebted wage": the process through which wage labor is transformed into financial assets and new forms of accumulation. I begin with the observation that many Paraguayan families work in order to channel money into debt-based investments. This invites a conceptual shift: can we extend the wage relationships outward from a language of exploitation and into a language of indebtedness as well? I track t…
Gender and Covid‐19
Feminist insights have already played an important role in our rapidly developing understanding of COVID‐19. Intersectional research has drawn attention to the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women of color—particularly in the care industry and essential services—as well as the amplified discrimination faced by LGBTQI+ people. Understanding the pandemic as a gendered catastrophe builds outward from feminist anthropological research, th…
Subprime Empire: On the In-Betweenness of Finance
In the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis, much of the debate has been over whom to blame: reckless speculative finance or irresponsible (often low-income) borrowers. This essay takes up this set of moral arguments about what the poor can and should be able to afford by examining subprime logics at a global scale: subprime empire. Predatory lending in heartland America and development-oriented microcredit in places such as India and Pa…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Matters of Life and Death: Kin-work at Funerals
This article draws on queer and feminist social anthropological epistemologies in order to sketch out a methodological framework for the interpretation of archaeological data from funerary contexts. Funerary assemblages have ongoing significance in archaeological models of identity and social structure, including one’s status, gender, cosmological beliefs, etc. Biomolecular analyses of human remains are a major source of data about the past and a…
To the Readers of Current Anthropology
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)