CHAPTER 6 Sometimes We Work Just to Pay Our Debts: Informal Credit and Savings Systems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. INTRODUCTION Amber Sunsets and Pink Gold 1
6. CHAPTER 1 Contested Grounds: Women Shrimp Traders and Street Economies 41
7. CHAPTER 2 On Becoming Changueras: Gendered Livelihoods and Contested Identities 80
8. CHAPTER 3 The Street of the Women Shrimp Traders: Learning the Tricks of the Trade in Space and Place 108
9. CHAPTER 4 Here We Are Like a Family: The Complexity of Social Relations 147
10. CHAPTER 5 The Culture and Economy of Pink Gold: The Meanings, Processes, and Values of Shrimp 185
11. CHAPTER 6 Sometimes We Work Just to Pay Our Debts: Informal Credit and Savings Systems 222
12. CHAPTER 7 From Outcasts to Icons: Women Shrimp Traders and Expressive Culture 260
13. CONCLUSION Feminist Political Ecology, Ethnography, and Uncovering Lived Realities 291
14. Notes 305
15. References 313
16. Index 329