caa a22 4500 386389705 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00009501 doi S0026749X00009501 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00009501 Rudner David Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of Colonial South India [Elektronische Daten] [David Rudner] The notion of ‘banker's trust' has a paradoxical quality, like ‘burning cold' or ‘military intelligence.' Common sense (another paradoxical notion) tells us that bankers have no trust. Perhaps this explains the appeal of Marxist and Weberian assumptions that capitalist economies tend to destroy pre-capitalist social formations based on trust. From the classic perspective, ‘primordial' social ties mandate relations of trust (or something like them) in kin groups and castes only so long as the members of these groups do not operate directly—as bankers do—within a capitalist economic system. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-07), 417-458 0026-749X 23:3<417 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00009501 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00009501 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rudner David Department of Anthropology, Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-07), 417-458 0026-749X 23:3<417 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge