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Author_Ola Gunhildrud Berta
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Cultural Studies (General)
Development Studies
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forthcoming
Political and Economic Anthropology
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- ISBN 9781836955481
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
