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By Cynthia Werner,Duran Bell,Maurice Godelier,James A. Egan,Françoise Dussart,Colin Danby,Georgia L. Fox,Mahir Saul,Beth E. Notar,Lynne Milgram,Kathleen Pickering,David Mushinski,Eric J. Arnould,Carolyn Folkman Curasi,Linda L. Price,Jim Weil Science Museum o

ISBN-10: 0759105448

ISBN-13: 9780759105447

ISBN-10: 0759105456

ISBN-13: 9780759105454

during this intriguing new quantity from the Society for monetary Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell compile a gaggle of distinctive anthropologists and economists to debate the advanced ways that assorted cultures imbue fabric gadgets with symbolic traits whose worth can't be lowered to fabric or financial equivalents. gadgets with sacred or symbolic features are valued fairly otherwise than mundane gadgets, and the individuals to this quantity got down to get to the bottom of how and why. within the first of 3 sections, the authors think about the level to which sacred gadgets can or can't be exchanged among members (e.g., ancestral items, land, dreaming stories). within the subsequent part, individuals speak about the worth and gear of markets, cash, and credits. they give thought to theoretical types for knowing funds transactions, competing currencies, and the facility of credits between marginalized teams all over the world. The final part examines the ways that modern humans bestow symbolic worth on a few gadgets (e.g., kinfolk heirlooms, pre-Columbian artifacts, style items) and eventually how a few contributors themselves are valued in financial and symbolic methods. With its emphasis at the interaction of cultural and financial values, this quantity should be a necessary source for economists and fiscal anthropologists. released in cooperation with the Society for fiscal Anthropology. Visit their net page.

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Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series) by Cynthia Werner,Duran Bell,Maurice Godelier,James A. Egan,Françoise Dussart,Colin Danby,Georgia L. Fox,Mahir Saul,Beth E. Notar,Lynne Milgram,Kathleen Pickering,David Mushinski,Eric J. Arnould,Carolyn Folkman Curasi,Linda L. Price,Jim Weil Science Museum o


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