Culturing Money : Double Movements in the Marshall Islands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berta, Ola Gunhildrud.

Series:

Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists Series

Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists Series ; v.12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Marshall Islands.

Ethnology.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Gives detailed analyses of some of the ways in which living people grapple with and try to make sense of pressing social and economic challenges in times of societal transformations posed by emergent capitalist relations and an increased influence of and dependence on a market economy. While the ethnography of the specific problems negotiated and discussed are sometimes unique to the Marshall Islands case, they reflect larger issues with relevance for everyone affected by, and concerned about their own engagement with, a capitalist economy. Revitalizes the culture concept in anthropological analyses by highlighting and carefully unpacking the analytical tensions that arise from its dual nature as an emic construction and etic concept. This revitalization is as much methodological as theoretical as it frames the possible disagreement between the anthropologist's and their research participants' understanding of certain concepts as an analytically fruitful path of exploration. Is one of only two ethnographic accounts of contemporary cultural production and meaning making in the Micronesia region published in the last twenty years. It will therefore be an valuable addition to a relatively scarce regional literature.

Contents:

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

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 Compact 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.

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Other Format:

Print version: Berta, Ola Gunhildrud Culturing Money

ISBN:

9781836955504

OCLC:

1593362556