Deborah James. Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa

Authors

  • Viviane Marinho Fernandes Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2017.119022

Keywords:

Credit, Indebtedness, South Africa

Abstract

Review of Deborah James, Money from nothing: indebtedness
and aspiration in South Africa. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2014. 304 pp.

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Author Biography

  • Viviane Marinho Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional

    Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social do Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 

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Guyer, Jane. (2004), Marginal gains: monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

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Peebles, Gustav. (2010), “The anthropology of credit and debt”. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39: 225-240.

Shipton, Parker. (2011), Credit between cultures: farmers, financiers, and misunderstanding in Africa. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Published

2017-04-15

Issue

Section

Reviews

How to Cite

Fernandes, V. M. (2017). Deborah James. Money from nothing: indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa. Tempo Social, 29(1), 327-330. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2017.119022