Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies : Studies from Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and middle America

ISBN-13: 9780415330152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 400 str.

Raymond William Firth; B. S. Yamey

Opis

The formation and management of capital are among the central issues in economic growth, especially in 'under-developed' countries, and form the main theme in this volume.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies, Raymond Firth; Chapter 2 )., Lorraine Bari?; Chapter 3 Personal Capital Formation among the Tolai of New Britain1I carried out the field work on which this paper is based as a Research Fellow of the Australian National University, Canberra, in a Tolai parish, between October 1959 and October 1960, and again from April to July 1961., Scarlett Epstein; Chapter 4 Capital, Investment and the Social Structure of a Pastoral Nomad Group in South Persia, Fredrik Barth; Chapter 5 Capital, Savings and Credit among Lao Peasants1This essay has primary reference to the situation in Laos as it existed in the late 1950s. By 1962 the Communists and their allies had obtained effective control of all of the country beyond the regions bordering on the Mekong. It is to be presumed that they have made vigorous efforts to change or at least modify existing administrative and land tenure patterns. Significant migration also occurred during and after the fighting., Joel M. Halpern; Chapter 6 Capital Saving and Credit in Highland Orissa (India), F. G. Bailey; Chapter 7 Capital, Saving and Credit in a Malay Peasant Economy, M. G. Swift; Chapter 8 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories, Marjorie Topley; Chapter 9 Institutions for Capital Formation and Distribution among Fijians, C. S. Belshaw; Chapter 10 Rural Local Savings Associations (Maori Komiti) in New Zealand's Far North1The research for this essay was carried out during visits to Kotare, a Maori community in the Far North of New Zealand, in 1955 (five months), 1958 (six months), 1959 (three weeks) and 1960 (one month), with the assistance of a Carnegie Social Science Research Grant (1955) and Fellowship (1958–60). I am indebted to the Maoris of Kotare for their unfailing courtesy and co-operation, Part icularly to the Hakea and Karaka komiti marae and to the officers of the Kotare Komiti Marae, wh

O autorze

Raymond Firth, B. S. Yamey