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Editorial Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2004

Thomas R. Trautmann
Thomas R. Trautmann
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Ethnographies of Debt. Debts are social relations, as the first two essays remind us, whether between persons or countries. Debts that are not meant to be repaid serve to maintain dependency relations between persons; conversely, the way to resolve dependency between the states of North and South may be debt forgiveness.

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Editorial Foreword
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 191 - 192
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© 1998 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History