Money Matters
Umgang mit Geld als soziale und kulturelle Praxis
Contributor(s)
Meyer, Silke (editor)
Language
GermanAbstract
This volume examines ways of dealing with money as social and cultural forms. Empirical examples from the discipline of European Ethnology encompass modified bank notes, regional monies, Deutschmark-nostalgia, the role of pocket money in parenting, pawned money, money gifts and remittances. In all of them, money can be read as a means of social positioning, as a way of negotiating belonging, as biographical self-emancipation and as social inclusion and exclusion. The case studies share one aim: by deconstructing economic as social practices, the economy as such can be anthropologized (Paul Rabinow), i.e. stripped off its allegedly self-evident universal claim and revealed in its culturally, socially and historically specific functions.
Keywords
Ethnic Studies; Tyrol; EconomyDOI
10.15203/2936-40-0ISBN
9783902936400, 9783902936400Publisher
innsbruck university pressPublisher website
https://www.uibk.ac.at/iupPublication date and place
Innsbruck, 2014Series
bricolage, 7Classification
Ethnic studies
Cultural studies
Economics