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1. C'est bien de valeur, mais… Portrait d'un pawn shop montréalais.

Author

Turcot DiFruscia, Kim

Subjects
*PAWNBROKING, *ETHNOLOGY, *SOCIAL role
Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic observation conducted in a Montreal pawnshop, this paper explores the logics and perception of money and changing rhetoric of value deployed within pawn broking, an activity of value fixation. The complex experience and self-definition of their social role by pawnbrokers is explored. The history of pawn broking is briefly C'est bien de valeur, mais… Portrait d'un pawn shop montréalais [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011