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Routledge
399 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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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A. H. Black
