Credit, Identity, and Resilience in the Bahamas and Barbados

摘要: People of the Caribbean have maintained social networks that provide security in face human and natural perturbations. Rotating savings credit associations (ROSCAs) constitute one such system, which probably came to much with African people persisted through slavery. As a foundation creole economic systems throughout Caribbean, ROSCAs are time-tested dimensions traditional culture source pride identity. This analysis history contemporary functions Barbados Bahamas is based on more than thousand extensive intensive first-person interviews surveys. article argues continue, as they did past, critical services, stability, African-ancestor identity these two nations.