{"id":799,"date":"2008-01-22T01:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=799"},"modified":"2018-08-15T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:41:30","slug":"15562-%c2%a0-clifford-geertz-the-rotating-credit-association-a-%e2%80%9cmiddle-rung%e2%80%9d-in-development%c2%a0-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"15562.&nbsp;(Clifford Geertz) The Rotating Credit Association: A \u201cMiddle Rung\u201d in Development&nbsp;[article]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rotat\u00ading cred\u00adit asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtions are pro\u00adfoundly impor\u00adtant insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. They illus\u00adtrate the abil\u00adity of peo\u00adple to orga\u00adnize them\u00adselves demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adi\u00adcally on a grass-roots lev\u00adel, and show that this impulse is cross-cul\u00adtur\u00adal. This is the clear\u00adest and most detailed descrip\u00adtion of how rotat\u00ading cred\u00adit asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtions work. The author\u2019s best knowl\u00adedge is of Indone\u00adsia, but he draws on well-researched com\u00adpar\u00adisons with oth\u00ader regions, espe\u00adcially Africa. The analy\u00adsis of struc\u00adture, motives, and effects is very sharp. Basic read\u00ading in this&nbsp;area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotat\u00ading cred\u00adit asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtions are pro\u00adfoundly impor\u00adtant insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. They illus\u00adtrate the abil\u00adity of peo\u00adple to orga\u00adnize them\u00adselves demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adi\u00adcally on a grass-roots lev\u00adel, and show that this impulse is cross-cul\u00ad\u00adtur\u00adal. This is the clear\u00adest and most detailed descrip\u00adtion of how rotat\u00ading credit&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=799\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8743,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}