The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
Abstract
Whether concerned with kinship or with kula, anthropology's interest in credit and debt goes back to the very beginnings of the discipline. Nevertheless, this review dedicates itself primarily to more recent research trends into credit and debt's powerful nature and effects. Following Mauss, credit and debt are treated as an indissoluble dyad that contributes to diverse regulatory mechanisms of sociality, time, space, and the body. Anthropology's overarching contribution to this field of inquiry rotates around its refusal to segregate the moral from the material, seeing the ubiquitous moral debates surrounding credit and debt in various ethnographic settings as coconstitutive of their material effects.
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Gustav Peebles (2010). The Anthropology of Credit and Debt. Annual Review of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-090109-133856
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title = {The Anthropology of Credit and Debt},
author = {Peebles, Gustav},
year = {2010},
journal = {Annual Review of Anthropology},
doi = {10.1146/annurev-anthro-090109-133856}
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