Money Matters

Money Matters

This article examines dealing with money as a social and cultural form of dealing with the self and with others. Based on empirical case studies from the discipline of European Ethnology, money and consumption are contextualized as a means of self-positioning between frugality and generosity,...

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Main Author: Silke Meyer
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2015-04-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Subjects:
Money Theory
Identity
Technologies of the Self
Consumption and Social Exclusion
Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3663
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spelling doaj-4e26d3de12eb4ec5ab297d3d25b0781f2021-03-19T20:49:05ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2015-04-0126110.25365/oezg-2015-26-1-4Money MattersSilke Meyer0Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Innsbruck This article examines dealing with money as a social and cultural form of dealing with the self and with others. Based on empirical case studies from the discipline of European Ethnology, money and consumption are contextualized as a means of self-positioning between frugality and generosity, biographical self-emancipation, and social inclusion and exclusion. The examples have one aim: by deconstructing economic practices, the economy as such can be ‚anthropologized‘ (Paul Rabinow), i.e. stripped off its allegedly self-evident universal claim and revealed in all its culturally and historically specific functions. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3663Money TheoryIdentityTechnologies of the SelfConsumption and Social Exclusion
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Money Matters
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Money Theory
Identity
Technologies of the Self
Consumption and Social Exclusion
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description This article examines dealing with money as a social and cultural form of dealing with the self and with others. Based on empirical case studies from the discipline of European Ethnology, money and consumption are contextualized as a means of self-positioning between frugality and generosity, biographical self-emancipation, and social inclusion and exclusion. The examples have one aim: by deconstructing economic practices, the economy as such can be ‚anthropologized‘ (Paul Rabinow), i.e. stripped off its allegedly self-evident universal claim and revealed in all its culturally and historically specific functions.
topic Money Theory
Identity
Technologies of the Self
Consumption and Social Exclusion
url https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3663
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