1. Capital, saving and credit in peasant societies: a viewpoint from economic anthropology / Raymond Firth -- 2. Some aspects of credit, savings and investment in a "non-monetary" economy (Rossel Island) / Lorraine Bariç -- 3. Personal capital formation among the Tolai of New Britain / Scarlett Epstein -- 4. Capital, investment and the social structure of a pastoral nomad group in south Persia / Fredrik Barth -- 5. Capital, saving and credit among Lao peasants / Joel M. Halpern -- 6. Capital, saving and credit in highland Orissa (India) / F.G. Bailey -- 7. Capital, saving and credit in a Malay peasant economy / M.G. Swift -- 8. Capital, saving and credit among indigenous rice farmers and immigrant vegetable farmers in Hong Kong's new territories / Marjorie Topley -- 9. Institutions for capital formation and distribution among Fijians / C.S. Belshaw -- 10. Rural local savings associations (Maori komiti) in New Zealand's far north / Joan Metge -- 11. Capital, credit and saving in Javanese marketing / Alice Dewey -- 12. The employment of capital by market women in Haiti / Sidney W. Mintz -- 13. Capital, saving and credit in a Guatemalan and a Mexican Indian peasant society / Manning Nash -- 14. Ethnic difference and peasant economy in British Guiana / Raymond T. Smith -- 15. Capital, saving and credit among Mauritian Indians / Burton Benedict -- 16. Capital formation, saving and credit in Indian agricultural society / Bert F. Hoselitz -- 17. The study of peasant economic systems: some concluding comments and questions / B.S. Yamey.