Debts facing death. Discovering everyday credit practices through testaments in seventeenth-century Buenos Aires
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martín L E Wasserman (0000-0001-9414-7449, Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICE, República Argentina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-369 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1081602x.2022.2075425 |
| OpenAlex | W4280567562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
To die in peace, pre-modern Catholics first had to settle their debts. They did so in debt declarations, recorded in testaments, which allowed dying men and women to indicate their creditors and debtors. We investigate a sample of 422 testaments from seventeenth-century Buenos Aires to demonstrate that debts were at the base of the local economy, and to discover some features about credit allocation. Our unique sources allow for a reconstruction of the heterogeneous ways of formalizing debts in the absence of a banking system, and show that non-notarized loans relied on reciprocity. Debt declarations recorded at the end of the life cycle allow for a reconstruction of the use of credit in everyday life
Creditor · Debt · Economics · Economy · Everyday life · Financial system · Political science · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology · Social science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Finance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |