Debt Relations in Georgian Bazaars

This article is about practices of borrowing and lending money in the context Georgian bazaar trade. While many anthropological studies focus on debtors or individual moneylenders, this starts from perspective microcredit experts, who grant loans to traders behalf their companies thereby engage complex relationships. Borrowing a institution consists an administrative act, which sealed by formal procedures such as signing contract, but sphere that is, at least partially, structured informal personal To make profit, experts must play risky sometimes existential game. They decide whether trust not client. In order assess minimize risk, they immerse themselves into world clients rely social values moralities. describes strategies thus gives insights nature debts, obligations, relationships, institutional frameworks, microfinance trade sector.