Culturing Money : Double Movements in the Marshall Islands (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists) （Library Binding）

Berta, Ola Gunhildrud

Berghahn Books（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836955481

Full Description

The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders' quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. These values are consciously pitted against selfishness, wage-labour, and money dependency, which are values commonly deemed to belong to the realm of "the economy". Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of tables, figures, and maps

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Introduction: M̗anit and M̗ani, Culture and Money

Chapter 1. Connections: The Local Economy as an Ethnographic Field

Chapter 2. Legacies: Copra, Craft, and Passports

Chapter 3. Mutual Aid: How Work Brings Kinship into Being

Chapter 4. Helping the People: Marshallese Fundamentals for a National Economy

Chapter 5. Be Marshallese, Buy Marshallese: Marketing Culture

Chapter 6. Emergent Authenticity: The Ambivalence of Cultural Commodities

Conclusion: Culturing Money

References

Index