Credit Between Cultures
Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
Published on 27. July 2010
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-300-11603-8 (ISBN)
Description
Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives - cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical - and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 black-&-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-300-11603-8 (9780300116038)
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E-Book
06/2010
1st Edition
Yale University Press
€82.95
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Person
Parker Shipton is associate professor of anthropology and research fellow in African studies at Boston University. He is the author of The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa, both published by Yale University Press.