Beads and Money: Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power

@article{citeulike:282020, abstract = {Why have so many societies adopted beads or other objects of adornment as currencies of trade? The question opens up a series of other questions about the nature of exchange, visibility and invisibility, and the relation of exchange both to conceptions of the human person and ways of exercising power over others. [money, exchange theory, theories of magic, fetishism, the person, gender, agency and royal power, Madagascar]}, author = {Graeber, David }, citeulike-article-id = {282020}, journal = {American Ethnologist}, keywords = {anarchism, anthropology, savageminds, value}, number = {1}, pages = {4--24}, posted-at = {2005-08-15 08:18:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Beads and Money: Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/646251}, volume = {23}, year = {1996} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:282020 L3 - citeulike-article-id:282020 TI - Beads and Money: Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power JF - American Ethnologist VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 4 EP - 24 N2 - Why have so many societies adopted beads or other objects of adornment as currencies of trade? The question opens up a series of other questions about the nature of exchange, visibility and invisibility, and the relation of exchange both to conceptions of the human person and ways of exercising power over others. [money, exchange theory, theories of magic, fetishism, the person, gender, agency and royal power, Madagascar] KW - anarchism KW - anthropology KW - savageminds KW - value AU - Graeber, David PY - 1996/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/646251 ER -