The Anthropology of Credit and Debt

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Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017, background): “…financial ecologies of crowdfunding are certainly multiple: as anthropological research tends to stress, more broadly, the contingent dyadic unity of credit–debt can lead to relational forms which can enable the building of community solidarities (Graeber, 2011; Peebles, 2010; cf. Lazzarato, 2012).”
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America1 (2016, background): “7 As we will see, these contrasting logics are deeply embedded in the credit transaction, which has often been analyzed as a particular form of gift relationship (Mauss 2000; Peebles 2010; Graeber 2011).”
Juggling with Debt, Social Ties, and Values (2014, background): “Insofar as patronage and clientelism remain the main means of wealth redistribution, the ability to act as an inter- mediary is one of the most common ways of getting upward mobility (Pattenden 2011; Picherit 2009, 2012).”