Recovering debts: Microfinance loan officers and the work of "proxy-creditors" in India

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 480-493

  Kar, Sohini ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective labor; Creditors; Debt; Financialization; India; Microfinance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881513709     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12034     Document Type: Article

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