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Money [electronic resource] : ethnographic encounters / edited by Stefan Senders and Allison Truitt.

Contributor(s): Senders, Stefan John, 1959- | Truitt, Allison | American Ethnological Society. Meeting (2004 : Atlanta, Ga.)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledgePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, c2007Edition: English edDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 134 p.)ISBN: 1845207505 (cloth); 1845207513 (pbk.); 9781845207502 (cloth); 9781845207519 (pbk.); 9781847883407 (electronic bk.); 1847883400 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 | Veldwerk | Antropologen | Geld | Culturele aspectenGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Money.DDC classification: 306.4 LOC classification: GN34.3.F53 | M66 2007ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

Equation fixations : on the whole and the sum of dollars in foreign exchange / Julie Y. Chu -- Changing money in post-Soviet Ukraine / J.A. Dickinson -- Dollars and dolores in postwar El Salvador / Ellen Moodie -- Hot loans and cold cash in Saigon / Allison Truitt -- The smoking wallet : an anthropologist meets transnational tobacco corporations in Malawi / Marty Ota�nez -- What do you want me to do, bang my head against the wall? : reflections on having and not having in the field / Stefan Senders -- Circuits of conversion : from 14,000 to 1 / Naeem Inayatullah.

Summary: 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?

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

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