Introduction: money and the morality of exchange
Parry, Jonathan; and Bloch, Maurice
(1989)
Introduction: money and the morality of exchange
In:
Money and the Morality of Exchange.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 32.
ISBN 9780521367745
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.
| Item Type | Chapter |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 1989 Cambridge University Press |
| Departments | Anthropology |
| DOI | 10.1017/CBO9780511621659.001 |
| Date Deposited | 15 Nov 2011 14:44 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39602 |
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