The mark of a civilized economy is national money; the English pound, the Australian dollar, the Indian rupee. The mark of a savage economy is untamed money in the form of cowrie shells, silver, gold and so on. The state's power is critically dependent on its ability to domesticate savage money and to reassert its control. This is a constant struggle and especially so for an imperial state with ambitions of international statehood. The English pound conquered cowries and silver at the end of the last century, and the American dollar almost succeeded in domesticating gold, the last vestige of savage money. However, a new era of savage money is dawning in the twilight of the American empire. "Money" has an equivocation rather than a definition. It is a chameleon-like symbol which is forever changing as mercantile relations between people vary over time and place. This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.
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Savage Money is certainly the most innovative contribution to economic anthropology for a decade and will be read with the greatest intellectual pleasure, even by those who most strongly disagree with its arguments.
–Paul Alexander of University of Sydney, Australia
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Although this book reports fieldwork in 'Tribal' India (Bastar District) and includes a comparative analysis of shell money use in India, readers expecting to find a conventional anthropological study of 'primitive money' will be disappointed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bangle merchants, village money lending, household proprietorship, commonplace contradiction, rival cognitions, free market anarchism, cowrie money, cowrie trade, savage money, asymmetrical recognition, anarchist values, foreign dollar holdings, household polity, commonplace logic, ethnographic classification, colour cube, surplus ratio, imitation jewellery, marketed produce, stitched cloth, cloth traders, recognised relations, interest bearing capital, private mills, glass bangles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, World Bank, Papua New Guinea, Bastar District, Land Mortgage Bank, Gresham's Law, Fort Knox, Narainpur Tahsil, Second World, Ann Marsh, Bare Dongar, Kondagaon Tahsil, United States, Bastar Tribals, Jethu Ram, Milton Friedman, Minor Road Boundary of Kondagaon, Simeran Gell, Andhra Pradesh, Chitaliya Brothers, First World War, Gold Commission, Indal Singh, Other Industrial Developing, Port Moresby New!
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Although this book reports fieldwork in 'Tribal' India (Bastar District) and includes a comparative analysis of shell money use in India, readers expecting to find a conventional anthropological study of 'primitive money' will be disappointed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bangle merchants, village money lending, household proprietorship, commonplace contradiction, rival cognitions, free market anarchism, cowrie money, cowrie trade, savage money, asymmetrical recognition, anarchist values, foreign dollar holdings, household polity, commonplace logic, ethnographic classification, colour cube, surplus ratio, imitation jewellery, marketed produce, stitched cloth, cloth traders, recognised relations, interest bearing capital, private mills, glass bangles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, World Bank, Papua New Guinea, Bastar District, Land Mortgage Bank, Gresham's Law, Fort Knox, Narainpur Tahsil, Second World, Ann Marsh, Bare Dongar, Kondagaon Tahsil, United States, Bastar Tribals, Jethu Ram, Milton Friedman, Minor Road Boundary of Kondagaon, Simeran Gell, Andhra Pradesh, Chitaliya Brothers, First World War, Gold Commission, Indal Singh, Other Industrial Developing, Port Moresby New!
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