This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in different societies, and especially with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges of a different kind. It focuses not on the problems of monetary theory which have conventionally preoccupied the economist but on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions.

This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation, and exchange.