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Money and modernity
Money and modernity: state and local currencies in Melanesia
edited by David Akin and Joel Robbins
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999.
ISBN: 0822956896   DDC: 332.4995   LCC: HG1480.9   Edition: (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Library: Auburn University
Last Loaded: 08/18/2004
MARC Timestamp: 07/08/2003
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Control Number: 1821112

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500      $aPapers presented at the 1996 meetings of the
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504      $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-272)
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505  0   $aAn Introduction to Melanesian Currencies Agency,
         Identity, and Social Reproduction / Joel Robbins and David
         Akin -- 1. Magical Money: Commoditization and the Linkage of
         Maketsi ("Market") and Kangakanga ("Custom") in Contemporary
         North Mekeo / Mark S. Mosko -- 2. Meaning, Contingency, and
         Colonialism: Reflections on a Papua New Guinea Shell Gift /
         Doug Dalton -- 3. This Is Our Money: Modernism, Regionalism,
         and Dual Currencies in Urapmin / Joel Robbins -- 4. Cash and
         Shell Money in Kwaio, Solomon Islands / David Akin -- 5.
         Pecuniary Schismogenesis in the Massim / John Liep -- 6.
         Money and the Morality of Exchange Among the Kwanga, East
         Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea / Karen Brison -- 7.
         Objects, Relationships, and Meanings: Historical Switches in
         Currencies in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea / Andrew
         Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- 8. The Meaning of Money
         in the Age of Modernity / Edward LiPuma -- 9. In God We
         Trust? The Legitimacy of Melanesian Currencies / Robert J.
         Foster -- 10. Comparisons and Equivalencies in Africa and
         Melanesia / Jane I. Guyer.
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