ISBN : 9782296056879
ON MONEY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: TOWARDS A NEW OBJECT, THEORY AND METHOD
Keith Hart
This paper started out as an attempt to study the euro from an
anthropological point of view; but it has ended up being more about
anthropological method and money in general. Even so, a focus on the new
European currency leads me to ask how we might study transnational or even
global phenomena like this and still call ourselves anthropologists. For when
ethnographers are not restricting their research to fieldwork in a particular
place, they still tend to be limited in scope to working in one country. Social
anthropology "vas once remarkable for the unity of its object, theory and
method; but this disappeared along with "primitive" societies.
Anthropologists still cling to "fieldwork-based