Ivan V. Small is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He is co-editor of Money at the Margins.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Money, Gifts, and Flows1. The "Dangerous" Gift2. Sà i Gò n, Overlaid by H Chí Minh: Capitalist Desires and Deferrals3. Coastal Flows and Hypothetical Horizons4. The Beautiful, Tired Country5. Crossing the Bridge... Home?Conclusion: Not Yet Enough: Mobility and Its MalcontentsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Throughout Currencies of Imagination, Small masterfully navigates between vividly rendered ethnographic stories and astute interpretations of anthropological and allied theory, challenging readers to rethink the gift and money anew. And that is a gift social scientists can use.(Cross-Currents) [An] important contribution and benefit to economic and anthropolohical investigations of mobility, money, identity and imaginaries.(American Ethnologist) This book will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists interested in remittance economies, international migration, as well as the diasporic community and social transformations of Vietnam. This reader in particular finds in it an intimate and intriguing portrayal of Vietnam, a nation that is always on a spectacular move but is haunted by its past and troubled by an ambiguous present.(Pacific Affairs) Currencies of Imagination, by Ivan Small, is a path-breaking book that draws on over a decade of anthropological research to tell a powerful story about migration and cultural remittances sent to Vietnam. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the dynamic meanings of money in a transnational context.- Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, University of Washington (International Migration Review) Ivan V. Small's book Currencies of Imagination is a remarkably tight ethnographic account of how affectively complex money becomes when it flows between borders, boundaries, and kin. Small's book is a timely reminder of why it is important to pay attention to the inequalities and opportunities attached to migrant lives in the United States.(The Journal of Asian Studies)

Ivan V. Small is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He is co-editor of Money at the Margins.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Money, Gifts, and Flows1. The "Dangerous" Gift2. Sà i Gò n, Overlaid by H Chí Minh: Capitalist Desires and Deferrals3. Coastal Flows and Hypothetical Horizons4. The Beautiful, Tired Country5. Crossing the Bridge... Home?Conclusion: Not Yet Enough: Mobility and Its MalcontentsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Throughout Currencies of Imagination, Small masterfully navigates between vividly rendered ethnographic stories and astute interpretations of anthropological and allied theory, challenging readers to rethink the gift and money anew. And that is a gift social scientists can use.(Cross-Currents) [An] important contribution and benefit to economic and anthropolohical investigations of mobility, money, identity and imaginaries.(American Ethnologist) This book will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists interested in remittance economies, international migration, as well as the diasporic community and social transformations of Vietnam. This reader in particular finds in it an intimate and intriguing portrayal of Vietnam, a nation that is always on a spectacular move but is haunted by its past and troubled by an ambiguous present.(Pacific Affairs) Currencies of Imagination, by Ivan Small, is a path-breaking book that draws on over a decade of anthropological research to tell a powerful story about migration and cultural remittances sent to Vietnam. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the dynamic meanings of money in a transnational context.- Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, University of Washington (International Migration Review) Ivan V. Small's book Currencies of Imagination is a remarkably tight ethnographic account of how affectively complex money becomes when it flows between borders, boundaries, and kin. Small's book is a timely reminder of why it is important to pay attention to the inequalities and opportunities attached to migrant lives in the United States.(The Journal of Asian Studies)

Ivan V. Small is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He is co-editor of Money at the Margins.

• List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Money, Gifts, and Flows1. The "Dangerous" Gift2. Sà i Gò n, Overlaid by H Chí Minh: Capitalist Desires and Deferrals3. Coastal Flows and Hypothetical Horizons4. The Beautiful, Tired Country5. Crossing the Bridge... Home?Conclusion: Not Yet Enough: Mobility and Its MalcontentsAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

Throughout Currencies of Imagination, Small masterfully navigates between vividly rendered ethnographic stories and astute interpretations of anthropological and allied theory, challenging readers to rethink the gift and money anew. And that is a gift social scientists can use.(Cross-Currents) [An] important contribution and benefit to economic and anthropolohical investigations of mobility, money, identity and imaginaries.(American Ethnologist) This book will appeal to anthropologists and sociologists interested in remittance economies, international migration, as well as the diasporic community and social transformations of Vietnam. This reader in particular finds in it an intimate and intriguing portrayal of Vietnam, a nation that is always on a spectacular move but is haunted by its past and troubled by an ambiguous present.(Pacific Affairs) Currencies of Imagination, by Ivan Small, is a path-breaking book that draws on over a decade of anthropological research to tell a powerful story about migration and cultural remittances sent to Vietnam. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the dynamic meanings of money in a transnational context.- Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar, University of Washington (International Migration Review) Ivan V. Small's book Currencies of Imagination is a remarkably tight ethnographic account of how affectively complex money becomes when it flows between borders, boundaries, and kin. Small's book is a timely reminder of why it is important to pay attention to the inequalities and opportunities attached to migrant lives in the United States.(The Journal of Asian Studies)