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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.
Price: £104.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
Publication Date:
01 July 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781836955481
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
List of Illustrations
List of tables, figures, and maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Introduction: M̗anit and M̗ani, Culture and Money
Chapter 1. Connections: The Local Economy as an Ethnographic Field
Chapter 2. Legacies: Copra, Craft, and Passports
Chapter 3. Mutual Aid: How Work Brings Kinship into Being
Chapter 4. Helping the People: Marshallese Fundamentals for a National Economy
Chapter 5. Be Marshallese, Buy Marshallese: Marketing Culture
Chapter 6. Emergent Authenticity: The Ambivalence of Cultural Commodities
Conclusion: Culturing Money
References
Index