num_pages: 288
description: This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, 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.
language: English
title: Money and the Morality of Exchange
titlecomplete: Money and the Morality of Exchange
genres: Economics, Anthropology
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Cambridge University Press