Key symbols of gender and money

Sibel Kusimba

Chapter 1 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 216-221 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Money can be difficult to talk about and consequently difficult for anthropologists to study. This chapter describes a co-produced drawing methodology that explored how Kenyan women use different kinds of money, such as digital money or cash money, to create varied social and financial relationships. Interlocutors drew money as visual symbols of stigma, generosity, accountability, and precarity. The study revealed the cultural meanings that money, debt, and consumer financial products take on in women's lives and provoked further exploration of theoretical concepts like relational work, key symbols, and care economies for thinking about digital money in rural Kenya.

Keywords: Money; Digital money; Relational work; Key symbols; Gender; Debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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