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Luo entrustment: foreign finance and the soil of the spirits in Kenya
Africa • 65 (2) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 165-196
By: Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Abstract
This article examines the cultural dimensions of financial credit and debt among the Luo of Kenya. The article places these issues against a deeper and broader background of entrustments and obligations. Based on intensive field research, the article shows that Luo farmers already have a broad assortment of borrowings and lendings of their own, some far more meaningful to them than loans from banks, cooperatives, or marketing boards will ever be. Some of these practices are only partly economic in nature; some involve sacred trusts or important political contacts.
- Subjects
- Credit
- Borrowing and lending
- Real property
- External relations
- Research and development
- Cultural identity and pride
- Labor supply and employment
- Property in movables
- Exchange transactions
- Medium of exchange
- Mutual aid
- Cult of the dead
- Mode of marriage
- Sacred objects and places
- Gift giving
- Accumulation of wealth
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Saving and investment
- Administrative agencies
- Acculturation and culture contact
- culture
- Luo
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field Date
- 1980-1991
- Coverage Date
- 1950-1995
- Coverage Place
- Luoland, Kenya
- Notes
- Parker Shipton
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 192-195)
- LCCN
- 29010790
- LCSH
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)