Perspectives in the Anthropology of Money

Anthropological accounts of primitive and modern money forms

In much of the anthropological record of money, scholars have rehearsed a distinction between modern money and primitive money…

Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Monetary Economics and Cryptocurrency

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The 2008 economic downturn, alongside broad-scale information and communication technologies have led to a proliferation of imagination…

On Georg Simmel’s Quantification

Reflections on how Georg Simmel thought about money

Simmel’s Quantification

In my readings in the anthropology and sociology of money, two figures have often stood out against whom…

Some notes on Nigel Dodd’s first chapter: Origins

Clarifications on Dodd’s approach to money

Nigel Dodd’s (2014) first chapter presents several challenges and I would like to suggest a framework that can help us understand him more clearly…

Money and Violence

Reflections on the sovereign power of money

In this post, I’d like to discuss the section on violence in Nigel Dodd’s (2014) first chapter on the origins of money. This section basically discusses the works of Michel Aglietta and Andre…