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