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Author:   Raymond Firth ,  B.S. Yamey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780415330152

ISBN 10:   0415330157
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   26 February 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Raymond Plant, Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology 2. Lorraine Baric, Some Aspects of Credit, Saving and Investment in a 'Non-Monetary' Economy (Rossel Island) 3. Scarlett Epstein, Personal Capital Formation among the Tolai of New Britain 4. Fredrick Barth, Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia 5. Joel M. Halpern, Capital, Saving and Credit among Lao Peasants 6. F.G. Bailey, Capital, Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India) 7. M.G. Swift, Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy 8. Marjorie Topley, Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories 9. C.S. Belshaw, Institutions for Capital formation and Distribution among Fijians 10. Joan Metge, Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North 11. Alice Dewey, Capital, Credit and Saving in Javanese Marketing 12. Sidney W. Mintz, The Employment of Capital by Market Women in Haiti 13. Manning Nash, Capital, Saving and Credit in a Guatemalan and a Mexican Indian Peasant Society 14. Raymond T. Smith, Ethnic Difference and Peasant Economy in British Guiana 15. Burton Benedict, Capital, Saving and Credit among Mauritian Indians 16. Bert F. Hoselitz, Capital Formation, Saving, and Credit in Indian Agricultural Society 17. B.S. Yamey, The Study of Peasant Economic Systesm: some Concluding Comments and Questions

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