The challenge of money to disciplinary boundaries. A call for an interdisciplinary approach based on the literature on the Argentinian trueque

La monnaie face aux cloisonnements disciplinaires: Un plaidoyer pour une approche interdisciplinaire à partir des travaux sur le trueque argentin

Hadrien Saiag ()
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Hadrien Saiag: IIAC - Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This article calls for going beyond existing disciplinary boundaries in order to underline the political dimensions of money, based on a review of the literature dedicated to local currencies in Argentina, known as trueque. First, it shows that conceiving money as a "medium of exchanges" exerts a considerable infl uence on the sociological and anthropological literature, while this conception tends to depoliticize money. It then underlines the contributions of an interdisciplinary approach to money suggested by a group of heterodox economists, sociologists and historians, which conceives money as a social relation that takes different forms in space and time. Finally, I suggest two lines of inquiry that could allow this interdisciplinary approach better understanding the complex role played by money in the entangled processes that lead to the constitution of political communities.

Keywords: Anthropology; Argentina; economics; interdisciplinarity; money; sociology; trueque; Anthropologie; Argentine; économie; interdisciplinarité; monnaie; sociologie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Sociétés politiques comparées, 2016, 38, pp.1-19

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