Credit between cultures [electronic resource] : farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa / Parker Shipton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookSeries: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 332.1/753089965 22
LOC classification:
  • HC59.8 .S55 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology -- Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment -- In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition -- Wildfire : tobacco contract farming -- Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee -- Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury -- Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index.

Introduction: a golden pendulum -- Context for credit : a setting at the source of the Nile -- Three faces of the loan : charity, usury-- and fantasy -- Plans and dreams : an integrated approach on paper -- Lenders and lineages : nepotism as loyalty -- Untying a package deal : borrowing green revolution technology -- Debts and dodges : the moral and the hazard in repayment -- In a white elephant's shadow : reversal and repetition -- Wildfire : tobacco contract farming -- Self-help and the underground : individual incentive and the group guarantee -- Self-help with help : banking between charity and usury -- Crossing back : rethinking credit between cultures.

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