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Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt (2): Plurality, Conflict and Creativity around Human Economics

ID: jrp000278

Keyworddebt, cultural anthropology, human economy, gift, money, hierarchy, communism

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

Coordinator : SAKUMA Yutaka

Co-Coordinator : MINOO Arihiro, YOSHIDA Yukako

Joint Researchers : MARUYAMA Junko, OGAWA Sayaka, SAGAWA Toru, OTAKE Aoi, NAKAGAWA Osamu, HAYASHI Manami, SAKAI Takashi, YAMADA Miki, TERAUCHI Daisuke, SAKO Keiichiro, MATSUMURA Keiichiro, KODA Eri, YAMAMOTO Matori, SEKINO Ayako, NAKAYAMA Chikako, FUKADA Juntaro, KAWANO Masaharu, IKOMA Miki

Projects URL

https://www.debtstudies.net/