Money Ethnographic Encounters

Through vivid fieldwork accounts anthropologists explore the ways money has influenced their perceptions and understandings of culture. These accounts raise critical questions. How do anthropologists come to know another culture through ordinary yet unexpected experiences with money? How is anthropological knowledge produced through these interactions? This book offers students, teachers, and researchers the opportunity to consider the work of anthropology through vigorous narrative. It also includes a Guide to Further Reading for students. With stories of fieldwork in such varied sites as Vietnam, Ghana, China, and Malawi, Money is ideal for all students of anthropology.

Stefan Senders is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Allison Truitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University.