Section 3

Twenty households, one pot

Before a bank would lend, the money came from the table. This section covers the rotating credit association — the kye — the rules it ran on, and what happened to it when the children of the storefront owners no longer needed it.

A ledger and a cash box on a table — The pot was cash and the record of it was a household ledger — nothing a bank would accept as collateral.

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