Money and the Morality of Exchange (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521367745)

This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation, and exchange.

Author: Jonathan Parry
ISBN-10: 0521367743
ISBN-13: 9780521367745
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/09/1989
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.74d