An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology) - Softcover

Di Muzio, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138646008 ISBN 13: 9781138646001

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by looking at different forms of money, can we appreciate that they have different effects? The authors demonstrate how modern money requires perpetual growth, an increase in inequality, environmental devastation, increasing commoditization, and, consequently, the perpetual consumption of ever more stuff. These are not intrinsic features of money, but, rather, of debt-money. This text shows that, through studying money in other cultures, we can have money that better serves the broader goals of society.

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Tim Di Muzio is Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong.

Richard H. Robbins is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at SUNY at Plattsburgh.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138646008
• ISBN 13: 9781138646001
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
• Herausgeber: Robbins Richard
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