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Volume 12

Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

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Culturing Money

Double Movements in the Marshall Islands

Ola Gunhildrud Berta

260 pages, 26 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-548-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (July 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-549-8 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This is an unusually brilliant contribution to general anthropological theory. It is clearly argued and brings back the concept of culture in engagement with material and social practices in a way that makes it highly relevant to anthropologists at large.” • Ingjerd Hoëm, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

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The idea of culture has become a creative framework in Marshall Islanders’ quest to realise a community based on communality, meaningful work, and self-reliance. These values are consciously pitted against selfishness, wage-labour, and money dependency, which are values commonly deemed to belong to the realm of “the economy”. Culturing Money analyses what sort of conceptual and practical work that the dialectics of culture and economy can do for Marshall Islanders in their quest for a meaningful life where self-reliance is the ultimate goal.

Ola Gunhildrud Berta is an MSCA postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in the Marshall Islands since 2013. His ongoing research project is part of the interdisciplinary SEAS program and explores ocean-centered pursuits of sovereignty and development in the Marshall Islands.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyCultural Studies (General)Development Studies
Area: Asia-Pacific


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