This ethnographic study of the expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam hows how people use money as a standard of value to measure social and moral worth, how money is used to create new hierarchies of privlege and to limit freedom, and how both domestic and global monetary politics affect the cultural politics of identity.
| ISBN-13: | 9780295992754 |
| ISBN-10: | 0295992751 |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Publication date: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 193 |
| Product dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 1.00089866948 Pounds, Width: 0.63 Inches |
| Author: | Allison J. Truitt |
| Language: | en |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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