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An eminently readable analysis of 'trust' in human society, this ethnographically rich study of the Luo of Kenya shows how lending, borrowing and indebtedness are moral before they are economic. --David Parkin, University of Oxford<br><br>--David Parkin

Shipton takes what he finds for an African people, the Luo, as the material for a much broader and more powerful examination of the fates of the world''s rural populations. David William Cohen, University of Michigan -- David William Cohen

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Parker Shipton is associate professor of anthropology and research fellow in African studies at Boston University. He is the author of The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa, both published by Yale University Press.

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