Capital, saving and credit in peasant societies : studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and Middle America / edited by Raymond Firth and B.S. Yamey.

Originally published: Chicago, Ill.: Aldine, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

The formation and management of capital are among the central issues in economic growth, especially in 'under-developed' countries, and form the main theme in this volume. The societies examined vary widely, both geographically and also in terms of types of social and economic structures. First published in 1964.

English.

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