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Title Money : ethnographic encounters / edited by Stefan Senders and Allison Truitt
Edition English ed
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 134 pages)
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 / 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 Otañez -- 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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.
Anthropology -- Research -- Finance
Anthropology -- Research grants
Veldwerk.
Antropologen.
Geld.
Culturele aspecten.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Senders, Stefan John, 1959-
Truitt, Allison.
American Ethnological Society. Meeting (2004 : Atlanta, Ga.)
LC no. 2007023995
ISBN 1845207505
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