Money and the Morality of Exchange

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Beschreibung

This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	1989
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	288
ISBN-13:	9780521367745
ISBN-10:	0521367743
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Parry, Jonathan P.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Jonathan P. Parry
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.09.1989
Gewicht:	0,471 kg

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