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Philip Grierson, “The Origins of Money”

In Research in Economic Anthropology, 1, 1978, pp. 1-35

In this paper, Grierson tries to explain the origins of the concept of money as a measure of value. It is a reprint of the “Creighton Lecture in History” given in London in November 1970, and was originally published in 1977 (same title) by Athlone Press, London.

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Bourdieu, “What Makes a Social Class? On The Theoretical and Practical Existence of Groups”

This is the text of a lecture delivered as keynote address to the Dean’s Symposium on “Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Class: Analytical Constructs or Folk Categories?” at The University of Chicago, April 9-10, 1987. Translated from French by Loïc J. D. Wacquant and David Young. Published on the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, vol. 32, p. 1-18, 1987.

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