Savage Money

by C.A. Gregory

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789057020926
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/20/1997
Series:	Studies in Anthropology and History , #21
Pages:	357
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gregory, C.A.

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

Editorial Reviews

"Savage Money is certainly the most innovative contribution to economic anthropology for a decade and will be read with the greatest intellectual pleasure, even by those who most strongly disagree with its arguments."

From the Publisher

Savage Money is certainly the most innovative contribution to economic anthropology for a decade and will be read with the greatest intellectual pleasure, even by those who most strongly disagree with its arguments.

Paul Alexander

The deeper philosophical meaning of "value" is examined in this thought-provoking study of the household values that are associated with agricultural land, rural marketing, village money lending, and the use of diverse forms of "money" in Central India. Gregory (anthropology, Australian National U.) uses a comparative approach based on extensive field work in Central India to analyze the values that spring from reciprocally recognized relations of affinity, consanguinity and contiguity, and to contemplate how these relate to western notions of money and value<-->the "savage money" of free market capitalism. This is a second printing of a 1997 book. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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