Repaying the Debts of the Dead
Kinship, Microfinance, and Mortuary Practice on the Paraguayan Frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3649878 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline E Schuster (0000-0003-4229-2921, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2016.600205 |
| OpenAlex | W2484657512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
Microcredit loans-most famously systems of group-based borrowing-are a key tool in global economic development frameworks. Building outward from microcredit programs in Paraguay, I explore the discontinuous materialities of both kin- and debt-based obligations, especially at their intersection. I argue that borrowers feel the life span of debts most acutely when mortuary practices anchored in kinship ties are bound up with the task of taking on the financial obligations of the dead. This analysis shows how the bonds between kinship, death, and indebtedness go beyond analogy, for collective debt is not 'like' a kinship relationship. Instead, microcredit social collateral provides a means for people to deal with the broader issues affecting the life span of individuals, objects, and commitments, as well as the human stakes involved with obligation
Embeddedness · Frontier · Obligation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
The Funeral Casino
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Social Collateral
Poverty Capital
Introduction
Microfinance and Poverty
The cultural biography of things
Money and modernity
Women of Value, Men of Renown
The empire of things
Toward an anthropology of women.
Death and the Regeneration of Life
Money and the morality of exchange
Capital
Markets of Dispossession
The Rationality of Empowerment
Obligation, binding, debt and responsibility
Cosmologies of Credit
On social currencies and human economies
Relative Values
Trust
Empowering Women with Micro Finance
Subjects of Risk
The Anthropology of Credit and Debt
Enter microcredit
What kinship is (part two)
What kinship is (part one)
The social unit of debt
Deeper into a Hole
Microfinance and the Gender of Risk
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |