- Anthropology
- ILCAA Joint Research Project
- General
Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt (2): Plurality, Conflict and Creativity around Human Economics
ID: jrp000278
What does debt mean to human beings? This study seeks to answer this question by examining ethnographic cases from world over. During the second period, the concept of “human economies” —emerged. According to David Graeber, these are economies that are “to create, maintain, or sever relations between people rather than to purchase things.” This study explores what pluralistic debt should be to avoid violent quantification and abstraction of the value of human beings and things. It also discusses the conflict between this kind of debt and commercial economic debt to further shade light on the concept of “being indebted to others” in today’s world.
- Date
- 2022.04.01～2025.03.31
- Member
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Coordinator : SAKUMA, Yutaka
Co-Coordinator : YOSHIDA, Yukako, MINOO, Arihiro
Joint Researchers : IKOMA, Miki, OTAKE, Aoi, OGAWA, Sayaka, KAWANO, Masaharu, KODA, Eri, SAKAI, Takashi, SAGAWA, Toru, SAKO, Keiichiro, SEKINO, Ayako, TERAUCHI, Daisuke, NAKAGAWA, Osamu, NAKAYAMA, Chikako, HAYASHI, Manami, FUKADA, Juntaro, MATSUMURA, Keiichiro, MARUYAMA, Junko, YAMADA, Miki, YAMAMOTO, Matori
- Projects URL
- https://www.debtstudies.net/