Consumption and money: legitimate transactions, agreements and interpersonal conflicts in a microcredit program

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the production of legitimate transactions in a microcredit policy and to explore the creation of interpersonal agreements and conflicts related to these transactions. Based on an ethnographic approach, the paper focuses on the meanings that actors give to the allocation of money, emphasizing the creation as well as the expression of both ‘economic’ and ‘non-economic’ debts and obligations.

Keywords

• Microcrédito
• Transacciones
• Acuerdos y conflictos interpersonales
• Deudas
• Etnografía