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Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt(3) : Politics of Wealth Accumulation

ID: jrp000308

Keyworddebt, human economy, Graeber, accumulation

What does debt mean to human beings？This study seeks to answer this question by examining ethnographic cases from around the world, inspired by “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” of D. Graeber. During the third period, considering the current entanglement of “commercial economy” and “human economy,” the study aims to reveal the social contexts in which the specific relationships of indebting” and “indebted result in the accumulation of wealth through various ethnographic cases from Asia, Africa, and Oceania to discuss the mechanism by which the governance by state and capitalism is emerged, deconstructed, and reorganized.

Date

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Member

Coordinator : MINOO Arihiro

Co-Coordinator : SAKUMA Yutaka, YOSHIDA Yukako

Joint Researchers : FUKADA Juntaro, HAYASHI Manami, KODA Eri, MATSUMURA Keiichiro, NAKAGAWA Osamu, NAKAYAMA Chikako, NAMBA Miki, OGAWA Sayaka, OTAKE Aoi, SAKAI Takashi, SAKO Keiichiro, SEKINO Ayako, YAMADA Miki, YAMAMOTO Matori, YOSHIMURA Ryu

Projects URL

https://www.debtstudies.net/