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Maurice Bloch
Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science
Publications - 103
Citations - 7736
Maurice Bloch is an academic researcher from London School of Economics and Political Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kinship & Ideology. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 103 publications receiving 7458 citations.
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Death and the regeneration of life
Maurice Bloch,Jonathan Parry +1 more
TL;DR: Bloch and Parry as mentioned in this paper described the social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies, including Lugbara death, greed, cannibalism, and death pollution in Cantoese society.
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Money and the Morality of Exchange
Jonathan Parry,Maurice Bloch +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the way money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America, and the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds, concluding that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money.
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Introduction: money and the morality of exchange
Jonathan Parry,Maurice Bloch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges, is discussed, 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.
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Money and the morality of exchange
Jonathan Parry,Maurice Bloch +1 more
TL;DR: Parry and Bloch as discussed by the authors discuss the moral perils of exchange between money and men and women in the context of the Indian jajmani system and the role of women in money.