Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies : Studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and middle America

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Editors' Preface; Table of Contents; The Authors; 1. Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology; Studies in the Peasant 'Capital' Sector; Identification of Peasant Capital; Formation and Management of Peasant Capital; Saving and Investment; Credit in the Peasant Economy; Social Conditions and Capital Development; 2. Some Aspects of Credit, Saving and Investment in a 'Non-Monetary' Economy (Rossel Island)

Sociological and Psychological Explanation in Economic DevelopmentRossel Island-a 'Non-Monetary' Economy; Currency in Economic Transactions and Social Relationships; The Peculiarities of Rossel Currency; The Credit System; Profiting from the Credit System; Borrowing, Lending and Reciprocity; Rossel Island Economic Development Today; 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; Capital Form; Social Implications; Conclusion; 5. Capital, Savings and Credit Among Lao Peasants'

Land and Agricultural IncomePatterns of Cash Income; Market Gardening and Craftwork; Trade, Commercial Enterprises and Wage Labour; Consumption Patterns; Attitudes Towards Consumption and Investment; Rural and Urban Credit and Indebtedness; 6. Capital Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India); Introduction; Highland Orissa; The Peasant Economy; (a) Land in the peasant economy; (b) Investment in land; (c) Investment and credit in the peasant economy; (d) Capital accumulation within the peasant economy; (e) Social capital in the peasant economy; (f) The peasant economy; conclusions

The Commercial Sector(a) Introduction; (b) Growing turmeric; (c) Trading in turmeric; (d) The merchant-shopkeepers; (e) The commercial sector: summary; The Government Sector; (a) Introduction; (b) Government and the provision of capital; (c) Government and the distribution of capital; (d) Government and credit; (e) The 'brokers'; (f) Government activities: conclusion; Conclusions; 7. Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy; Saving; Capital; Rubber Smallholdings; Fruit Holdings; Riceland; Other Forms of Economic Activity; Attitudes Towards Accumulation; Credit

Social Capital and the Plural SocietyConclusion; 8. Capital, Saving and Credit Among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories; Introduction; Field of enquiry; Some facts about the New Territories; Capital, Saving and Credit; Capital: Rice Farmers; Capital: Immigrant Vegetable Farmers; Saving; Credit; Summary and Conclusions; 9. Institutions for Capital Formation and Distribution Among Fijians; II; III; The household; Ceremonial; Credit Unions; Store Credit; Producers' Credit; Producers' Levies; Social Capital; IV

10. Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North

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