Interdépendances marchandes et solidarité par la monnaie dans le trueque argentin

Hadrien Saiag (1)

1 IIAC - Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain

The experiences of trueque in two neighbouring towns, Rosario and Capitán Bermúdez (Poriajhú) are very contrasted. The study of the methods of access to the means of payment (made out in crédito) is the object of our argumentation : the idea is to relate access to payment to the forms interdependencies assume within each group. Now, they differ a lot in Rosario and in Poriajhú. In the first, some social groups are in a dominant situation, because they can frequently switch from one accounting system to another (crédito/peso). Maintaining a parity between account in peso and in crédito in Poriajhú does not allow this passage from one to another : the access to the means of payment puts all participants on an equal footing. A fundamental question remains : how to conceive a currency system capable to sustain the economic activity, putting at the same time its users on an equal footing ?

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Hadrien Saiag. Interdépendances marchandes et solidarité par la monnaie dans le trueque argentin. Finance et bien commun, 2010, 37-38 (2), pp.104. ⟨10.3917/fbc.037.0104⟩. ⟨halshs-02343374⟩