Savage money : the anthropology and politics of commodity exchange

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Savage money : the anthropology and politics of commodity exchange

C.A. Gregory

(Studies in anthropology and history, v. 21)

Harwood Academic, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Maps, Preface, I. The Value Question, II. Beyond Gifts and Commodities, III. Land as the Supreme Good, IV. Production of Commodities by Means of Goods, V. Mercantile Kinship, VI. Usury, Interest and Usance, VII. Domesticated Money, VIII. Savage Money, IX. Toward a Radical Humanist Anthropology, Bibliography, Index

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