Credit Spaces and Socio-family Strategies in a Transforming Society: coffee from Minas Gerais in the 19th century

Abstract

Analysis on the credit and financing system of XIX Mineira coffee-production, associating with socio-family strategies of ownership and status preservation. From the questioning of the capitalistic nature existence in the market of this period, it is proposed an interpretation under an anthropolical view, of the function and dynamics of the indebtedness in the process of building up the coffee-producing agrarian system.