LEADER 03365nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910779244103321 005 20230725060502.0 010 $a0-300-16292-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300162929 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105032 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168160 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11432189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10704666 035 $a(PQKB)11465534 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420986 035 $a(DE-B1597)486004 035 $a(OCoLC)1059279146 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300162929 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420986 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579385 035 $a(OCoLC)801194715 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105032 100 $a20100108d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCredit between cultures$b[electronic resource] $efarmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa /$fParker Shipton 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xxvii, 335 p., [12] p. of plates) ) $cill., map 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11603-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aParker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives-cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need for credit among African farming people. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aEconomic assistance$zAfrica 606 $aPoverty$zAfrica$xPrevention 606 $aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xFinance 606 $aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xEconomic conditions 606 $aEconomics$xSociological aspects 615 0$aEconomic assistance 615 0$aPoverty$xPrevention. 615 0$aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xFinance. 615 0$aLuo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aEconomics$xSociological aspects. 676 $a332.1/753089965 700 $aShipton$b Parker MacDonald$01548724 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779244103321 996 $aCredit between cultures$93828169 997 $aUNINA