The broker, a key concept in 1960s and 1970s political anthropology, merits revival in
settings of rapid social transition. In South Africa, where state planning directs the course of …

… by Deborah James [...] puts South Africa's debt industry under a microscope . . . James is an
… Deborah James's much needed ethnography reveals what it feels like to be on the receiving …

Considerable attempts to create a single economy of credit, in part through regularizing
microlenders (especially the much-demonized loansharks or mashonisas), have been made by …

… Two studies cross-cut rural/urban polarities, with James investigating the interrelations …
Indebtedness in the post-democracy era is the focus of Deborah James’s article. Debt is incurred …

This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have
heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and …

examine the inconsistent research findings [from studies which appeared from 1951–1991]
and attempt to demonstrate that they are, in fact, more consistent than they might initially …

In South Africa, with upward mobility much aspired to but seldom attained, householders
must spend money they have not yet earned. Borrowing both from formal institutions and …

The phonological awareness (PA), vocabulary, and word reading abilities of 19 children with
cochlear implants (CI) were assessed. Nine children had an implant early (between 2 and …

Within the language and gender literature one of the findings most widely cited as well
established is that men interrupt women more than women interrupt men. For example, …

The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than
on the physician's ability to listen, comfort, and prescribe. Medicine is not only increasingly …