| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 134 pages) |
| Series |
Encounters |
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Encounters (Berg (Firm))
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Equation Fixations; CHAPTER 2 Changing Money in Post-Soviet Ukraine; CHAPTER 3 Dollars and Dolores in Postwar El Salvador; CHAPTER 4 Hot Loans and Cold Cash in Saigon; CHAPTER 5 The Smoking Wallet; CHAPTER 6 What Do You Want Me to Do, Bang My Head Against the Wall?; CHAPTER 7 Circuits of Conversion; CHAPTER 8 Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In Money: Ethnographic Encounters, anthropologists tell stories of their experiences with money in the field. Through vivid fieldwork accounts, they explore the ways money has influenced their perceptions and understandings of culture. These accounts raise critical questions. How do anthropologists come to know another culture through ordinary yet unexpected experiences with money? How is anthropological knowledge produced through these interactions? Money: Ethnographic Encounters offers students, teachers and researchers the opportunity to consider the work of anthropology through vigorous na |
| Notes |
"This volume began as a series of papers first presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Ethnological Society in Atlanta, Georgia, in a session on: Encounters with money"--Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-125) and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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Experiential learning -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
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Economic anthropology -- Congresses
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Economic man -- Congresses
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Economic anthropology
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Economic man
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Senders, Stefan John, 1959-
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Truitt, Allison
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American Ethnological Society. Meeting (2004 : Atlanta, Ga.)
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| ISBN |
1847883400 |
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9781847883407 |
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