HEADS AND TAILS REVISITED

This research report revisits Keith Hart’s work on the mutual implication of token and commodity theories of money, focusing on his classic Malinowski lecture on the coin’s two sides. Hart associates ‘heads’ with political authority and token theories and ‘tails’ with quantitative value, market exch...

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Main Author: Chris Vasantkumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2016-08-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/59040/20434