Culturing Money

Ola Gunhildrud Berta is an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in the Marshall Islands since 2013. His ongoing research project is part of the interdisciplinary SEAS program and explores ocean-centered pursuits of sovereignty and development in the Marshall Islands.

• List of IllustrationsList of tables, figures, and mapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on the TextIntroduction: M̗anit and M̗ani, Culture and MoneyChapter 1. Connections: The Local Economy as an Ethnographic FieldChapter 2. Legacies: Copra, Craft, and PassportsChapter 3. Mutual Aid: How Work Brings Kinship into BeingChapter 4. Helping the People: Marshallese Fundamentals for a National EconomyChapter 5. Be Marshallese, Buy Marshallese: Marketing CultureChapter 6. Emergent Authenticity: The Ambivalence of Cultural CommoditiesConclusion: Culturing MoneyReferencesIndex

“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