Tolai tabu as wealth and money: A shifting and unstable distinction.
Distinctions between 'wealth' and 'money' such as the competing classifications of 'bridewealth' and 'brideprice' have a long pedigree in anthropology. Equally important has been the terminological struggle between 'shell-money' and 'shellwealth'. In this paper, I explore the ways in which a well-kn...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 392 - 407 |
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