Episode 2: Money culture with Dr. Allison Truitt
Welcome to the podcast of Finthropology, a company delivering insights into people’s financial behaviour.
In this episode we talk with Dr. Allison Truitt, Associate Professor at Tulane University and author of the book Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City. She is one of the editors of the book Money: Ethnographic Encounters, along with Stefan Senders.
We explore what money culture is, and why it is absolutely essential to pay attention to culture if we want to understand people’s financial behaviour.
Want to learn more about money culture? Allison recommends the following books:
Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families by Hung Cam Thai (Stanford University Press, 2014)
Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam by Ivan V. Small (Cornell University Press, 2018)
How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money by Bill Maurer (Duke University Press, 2015)
An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction by Tim Di Muzio and Richard H. Robbins (Routledge, 2017)
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