Savage Money

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Routledge, Aug 2, 2005 - Social Science - 357 pages

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.

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Contents

The Value Question
1
Beyond Gifts and Commodities
41
Land as the Supreme Good
71
Production of Commodities by Means of Goods
119
Mercantile Kinship
163
Usury Interest and Usance
211
Domesticated Money
233
Savage Money
265
Toward a Radical Humanist Anthropology
297
Bibliography
313
Index
327
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Gregory, C.A.

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