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Money and the morality of exchange
Jonathan Parry,Maurice Bloch +1 more
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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.Abstract:
1. Introduction: money and the morality of exchange Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch 2. Misconceiving the grain heap: a critique of the concept of the Indian jajmani system C. J. Fuller 3. On the moral perils of exchange Jonathan Parry 4. Money, men and women R. L. Stirrat 5. Cooking money: gender and the symbolic transformation of means of exchange in a Malay fishing community Janet Carsten 6. Drinking cash: the purification of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji C. Toren 7. The symbolism of money in Imerina Maurice Block 8. Resistance to the present by the past: mediums and money in Zimbabwe D. Lan 9. Precious metals in the Andean economy M. J. Sallnow 10. The earth and the state: the sources and meanings of money in Northern Potosi, Bolivia Olivia Harris.read more
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