Jonathan Parry / Maurice Bloch (eds.)

Money and the Morality of Exchange

Herausgeber: Bloch, M.; Parry, Jonathan P.; Parry, J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521365970
• ISBN-10: 052136597X
• Artikelnr.: 21770866

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: money and the morality of exchange Jonathan Parry and
Maurice Bloch; 2. Misconceiving the grain heap: a critique of the concept
of the Indian jajmani system C. J. Fuller; 3. On the moral perils of
exchange Jonathan Parry; 4. Money, men and women R. L. Stirrat; 5. Cooking
money: gender and the symbolic transformation of means of exchange in a
Malay fishing community Janet Carsten; 6. Drinking cash: the purification
of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji C. Toren; 7. The symbolism of
money in Imerina Maurice Block; 8. Resistance to the present by the past:
mediums and money in Zimbabwe D. Lan; 9. Precious metals in the Andean
economy M. J. Sallnow; 10. The earth and the state: the sources and
meanings of money in Northern Potosi, Bolivia Olivia Harris.