Money ethnographic encounters

Title:

Author:

Senders, Stefan John, 1959-

ISBN:

9781845207502

9781845207519

9781847883407

Edition:

English ed.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, c2007.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 134 p.)

Series:

Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge

Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge.

Contents:

Equation fixations : on the whole and the sum of dollars in foreign exchange / Changing money in post-Soviet Ukraine / Dollars and dolores in postwar El Salvador / Hot loans and cold cash in Saigon / The smoking wallet : an anthropologist meets transnational tobacco corporations in Malawi / What do you want me to do, bang my head against the wall? : reflections on having and not having in the field / Circuits of conversion : from 14,000 to 1

Abstract:

Through fieldwork accounts, here, the anthropologists explore the ways money has influenced their perceptions and understandings of culture. These accounts raise questions such as: How do anthropologists come to know another culture through ordinary experiences with money? and, How is anthropological knowledge produced through these interactions?

Subject Term:

Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Finance -- Congresses.

Anthropology -- Research grants -- Congresses.

Anthropology -- Research -- Finance -- Congresses.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.

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