ASAO Monograph #17

MONEY AND MODERNITY:
STATE AND LOCAL CURRENCIES IN MELANESIA 

Edited by David Akin and Joel Robbins

 

University of Pittsburgh Press 1999

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Introduction to Melanesian Currencies: Agency, Identity and Social Reproduction
Joel Robbins and David Akin

1. Magical Money: Commoditisation and the Linkage of Maketsi ("Market") and Kangakanga ("Custom") in Contemporary North Mekeo
Mark Mosko

2. Meaning, Contingency, and Colonialism: Reflections on a Papua New Guinea Shell Gift
Doug Dalton

3. "This Is Our Money": Modernism, Regionalism, and Dual Currencies in Urapmin
Joel Robbins

4. Cash and Shell Money in Kwaio, Solomon Islands
David Akin

5. Pecuniary Schismogenesis in the Massim
John Liep

6. Money and the Morality of Exchange among the Kwanga, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Karen Brison

7. Objects, Relationships, and Meanings: Historical Switches in Currencies in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart

8. The Meaning of Money in the Age of Modernity
Edward LiPuma

9. In God We Trust? The Legitimacy of Melanesian Currencies
Robert Foster

10. Comparison and Equivalents in Africa and Melanesia
Jane Guyer