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    Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies

    Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies by Black, A. H.;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 15 March 2007
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780202309187
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages398 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 521 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Contemporary problems of economic and social change have obliged social scientists from different fields to learn much about each others' work as well as about the specific problems they are together seeking to solve

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    Long description:

    Contemporary problems of economic and social change have obliged social scientists from different fields to learn much about each others' work as well as about the specific problems they are together seeking to solve. The bearing of economic conditions on the character of a social system has become more apparent to anthropologists, and, similarly, economists have become more aware of the relevance of social factors to economic decisions. This pioneering book is at the point of contact between these two disciplines, presenting detailed studies from many societies of the interaction between social and economic relationships.

    The studies in this volume--all by social anthropologists --focus on the formation and management of capital, since this process is central to the economic functioning and growth of all societies. With this central theme, the essays cover a very wide geographic range and an equally wide range of social and economic structures. The book begins with an essay by Firth, who provides an extended outline discussion of the main problems and issues to be covered, and ends with an essay by Yamey, who provides summarizing comments and queries.

    The volume will be especially useful to those concerned with the problems and prospects of economic and social change in underdeveloped areas, in addition to economists and anthropologists concerned with what each can learn from the other.

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    Table of Contents:

    EDITORS' PREFACE, THE AUTHORS 111. Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology, 2. Some Aspects of Credit, Saving and Investment in a 'Non-Monetary' Economy (Rossel Island), 3. Personal Capital Formation among the Tolai of New Britain, 4. Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia, 5. Capital, Saving and Credit among Lao Peasants, 6. Capital, Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India), 7. Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy, 8. Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories, 9. Institutions for Capital Formation and Distribution among Fijians, 10. Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North, 11. Capital, Credit and Saving in Javanese Marketing, 12. The Employment of Capital by Market Women in Haiti, 13. Capital, Saving and Credit in a Guatemalan and a Mexican Indian Peasant Society, 14. Ethnic Difference and Peasant Economy in British Guiana, 15. Capital, Saving and Credit among Mauritian Indians, 16. Capital Formation, Saving, and Credit in Indian Agricultural Society, 17. The Study of Peasant Economic Systems: Some Concluding Comments and Questions, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

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