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Roeber, Carter Alan.

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Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, informal credit and commercial culture in Kabwe, Zambia.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, informal credit and commercial culture in Kabwe, Zambia./
作者:	Roeber, Carter Alan.
面頁冊數:	345 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2750.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-07A.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9537498

Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, informal credit and commercial culture in Kabwe, Zambia.
Roeber, Carter Alan.

Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, informal credit and commercial culture in Kabwe, Zambia. - 345 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2750.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1995.

This dissertation is based upon fifteen months of anthropological field research in Kabwe, Zambia, from June, 1990 to September, 1991. It examines how informal credit relationships have developed within the context of a local commercial culture.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Cultural.

Shylocks and Mabisinesi: Trust, informal credit and commercial culture in Kabwe, Zambia.
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520 $a This dissertation argues that the market paradigm is not sufficient for explaining informal credit. Both the development of trust and the analysis of risk are essential to the modern social order. In conducting fieldwork, I had to develop relationships of trust. Reflecting on that process helped me understand the problems which townspeople faced everyday.
520 $a The townspeople of Kabwe have embraced modernity and its liberal underpinnings in their own way. People use basic schemata about the family, market, and bureaucracy to build local models that help them to get on with everyday problems. But their constructions are limited by a colonial legacy. Throughout the colonial period, Africans were denied access to the commercial activities and lived as workers in towns marked by a strict segregation between Europeans, Asians, and Africans.
520 $a Because of colonial policies and economic reforms after independence ordinary Zambians had little access to credit. As a result, small scale business activities remained simple in form. Credit is primarily used for consumption, not investment, but credit systems are evolving. Trade is primarily house based. Rotating credit association are present but relatively unimportant. Those who do kaloba as moneylending is known locally, are clearly entrepreneurial, but they do not have sophisticated methods of calculating transaction costs.
520 $a In the last two decades the townspeople of Kabwe have experienced considerable economic decline. They have responded by creatively reconstructing their local models, developing new forms of informal credit, and new kinds of small scale commercial activities. In discourse, they have linked economic decline to changes within the household and to changes in the political system.
520 $a Development specialists are becoming more sensitive to questions of trust and social order, but they continue to rely too much on the market paradigm in order to justify their policies. Certain, new forms of credit assistance are taking personal trust into account in their program designs.
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