Money and the Morality of Exchange

By M. Bloch and Jonathan P. Parry

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521367743
• ISBN13: 9780521367745
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"