| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 21 |
|
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 21.
|
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Debts Shared and Imposed, Political and Gendered; 2 Paying What One Owes ... or Carrying Out One's Obligations; 3 Debt: The Price of What, Exactly?; 4 Incompatibility and Complementarity of the Chicago Plan and Alternative Monetary and Financial Mechanisms; 5 Why Are Poor People Reluctant to Borrow? Microcredit in Rural Morocco; 6 Debtors and Creditors: Constructions and Delegitimization of Powers in Mali; 7 The Indebted State in Algeria: State Demand, Social Conflict, and Imaginary Sources of Power |
|
8 The Imaginary Debt of Communism: Political Conflicts and Historical Legitimization in Romania9 Indebtedness and Women's Material, Monetary, and Imaginary Debts in the Era of Globalized Gender; 10 Debt, or How to Get One's Neck Out of the Noose; 11 Perceptions of Debt and Microcredit in Senegal; 12 Conclusion: Debt Without End; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes debt as a political and social construct, with a multiplicity of purposes and agents. All of these are vectors of meanings that are highly diverse, and of subtle distinctions; they show that debt is a transverse phenomenon, cutting across spaces that are not merely economic but also domestic, social and political. Each contributor takes a fresh view of the subject, dealing with debt at a different time, in a differ |
| Notes |
"Originally published in France under the title Dette de qui, dette de quoi? [in 2013]." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 15, 2015) |
| Subject |
Debt.
|
|
Debt -- Social aspects
|
|
Economic anthropology.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
|
|
Debt
|
|
Debt -- Social aspects
|
|
Economic anthropology
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Hours, Bernard, editors.
|
|
Ould Ahmed, Pepita, editors.
|
| ISBN |
9781317497097 |
|
1317497090 |
|
9781317497080 |
|
1317497082 |
|
9781317497073 |
|
1317497074 |
|
