“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

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.

Series: Volume 12, Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

Area: Asia-Pacific

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; BUS068000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Development/Economic Development; SOC008030 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Ethnic Studies/Australian & Oceanian Studies