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C'est bien de valeur, mais… Portrait d'un pawn shop montréalais.
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Altérités: Revue d'Anthropologie du Contemporain . Dec2011, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p159-171. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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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]
- Subjects :
- *PAWNBROKING
*ETHNOLOGY
*SOCIAL role
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Details
- Language :
- French
- ISSN :
- 12058009
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Altérités: Revue d'Anthropologie du Contemporain
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74539546