ABSTRACT
Capital, saving and credit are aspects of an economic system, which in turn is a sub-system of a total social system. This very general proposition expresses the anthropological orientation that economic behaviour and economic arrangements are part of, and mutually interdependent with the social and cultural constitution of a given aggregate of persons whose behaviour is well enough adjusted to each other so that they may be called a society, and whose common understandings and social relations are so ordered that they may be analysed as a social system. The orientation leaves open the questions of the kinds of articulations between economy and society; the precise ways in which they determine each other; and the range of functional compatibility between action in the economic sphere and the other foci of action which make up the social system.
