Culturing Money

Double Movements in the Marshall Islands

AvOla Gunhildrud Berta

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

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Beskrivning

The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. These values are consciously pitted against selfishness, wage-labour, and money dependency, which are values commonly deemed to belong to the realm of “the economy”. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836955481

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomiska system inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Ola Gunhildrud Berta is an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in the Marshall Islands since 2013. His ongoing research project is part of the interdisciplinary SEAS program and explores ocean-centered pursuits of sovereignty and development in the Marshall Islands.

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“This is an unusually brilliant contribution to general anthropological theory. It is clearly argued and brings back the concept of culture in engagement with material and social practices in a way that makes it highly relevant to anthropologists at large.” • Ingjerd Hoëm, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of tables, figures, and mapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on the TextIntroduction: M̗anit and M̗ani, Culture and MoneyChapter 1. Connections: The Local Economy as an Ethnographic FieldChapter 2. Legacies: Copra, Craft, and PassportsChapter 3. Mutual Aid: How Work Brings Kinship into BeingChapter 4. Helping the People: Marshallese Fundamentals for a National EconomyChapter 5. Be Marshallese, Buy Marshallese: Marketing CultureChapter 6. Emergent Authenticity: The Ambivalence of Cultural CommoditiesConclusion: Culturing MoneyReferencesIndex