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Bitter moneyBook 1989 • Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Luo • Africa > Eastern Africa
This book is about concepts of money and exchange among the Luo of Kenya. It shows that the Luo, who live in a partly monetized economy and a partly Christianized religious environment, classify cash money into two types. One is 'good', and the other...Luo entrustmentarticle 1995 • Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Luo • Africa > Eastern Africa
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...Debts and trespassesarticle 1992 • Shipton, Parker MacDonald
Luo • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article discusses the experiences of smallholder farmers in Luoland, western Kenya, with government provided farm credit schemes. It shows that farm credit schemes wrongly assume that 'to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need fina...