'A real romance': gender, ethnicity, trust and risk in the Indian diamond trade

1 January 2000

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and Racial Studies

Vol. 23 (5) , 857-870
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870050110931

Abstract

This article examines the complex relationship between gender and ethnicity in the Indian diamond trade. Using an analysis of the marketing and consumption of diamonds in relation to the practices of the trade, the article argues for the embeddedness of gender relations and genderic discourses within the trade. The essay focuses upon the role of the Jain community and the ways in which trust relations are central to the architecture of the trade. But, both trust relations and risk-taking, the article argues, are also imbricated in the discourses that construct masculinities and the identities of the diamanteurs.

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