This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation, and exchange.
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This collection is concerned with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different societies and, more especially, with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gunu sede, mhondoro mediums, festive expenditure, zabt system, drinking yaqona, ancestral substance, ancestral resources, jajmani system, fishing households, jajmani relationships, transactional orders, total prestations, boat share, grain heap, village servants, moral peril, community mines, fishing crews, agrarian relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Sri Lanka, New York, Kegan Paul, Indian Sociology, Cambridge Economic History of India, American Anthropologist, Maurice Bloch, Oxford University Press, Northern Potosi, Raymond Firth, University of California Press, Fifth Report, San Salvador, South America, Academic Press, Basil Blackwell, Clarendon Press, Modern Asian Studies, Penguin Books, Tavistock Publications, University of Chicago Press, American Ethnologist, Athlone Press, Beacon Press New!
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This collection is concerned with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different societies and, more especially, with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gunu sede, mhondoro mediums, festive expenditure, zabt system, drinking yaqona, ancestral substance, ancestral resources, jajmani system, fishing households, jajmani relationships, transactional orders, total prestations, boat share, grain heap, village servants, moral peril, community mines, fishing crews, agrarian relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Sri Lanka, New York, Kegan Paul, Indian Sociology, Cambridge Economic History of India, American Anthropologist, Maurice Bloch, Oxford University Press, Northern Potosi, Raymond Firth, University of California Press, Fifth Report, San Salvador, South America, Academic Press, Basil Blackwell, Clarendon Press, Modern Asian Studies, Penguin Books, Tavistock Publications, University of Chicago Press, American Ethnologist, Athlone Press, Beacon Press New!
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