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Shell Game
Jerry Martien
其他書名
A True Account of Beads and Money in North America
出版
Mercury House
, 1996
主題
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Money & Monetary Policy
Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History
History / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN
1562790803
9781562790806
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pNtyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Shell Game, a unique and revealing investigation into the nature of money and human exchange, intertwines two stories. One starts in Manhattan in 1627 with the transactions by which North America was "bought" by Europe. Martien shows how a gift relationship based on beads was replaced by monetary relations based on credit, and how ancient ways of bookkeeping, exemplified by the Iroquois wampum exchange, were replaced by a social contract based on scarcity and deficit. Interspersed with his historical account, Martien tells a parallel story set in the present in which he attempts to negotiate a book advance, visit the wampum keeper at Onondaga, and unravel a personal tangle of love and habit in his life. Martien's search becomes a journey of remembrance and acknowledgment and an apology and condolence for cultural and monetary misappropriation. It becomes a pilgrimage in search of restitution and recovery that many readers will want to join.