Event details
Fung Global Fellows Talk | Liquid Modernity: Gold in the transaction systems of 21st Century India - and the world
How does the ceremonial exchange of gold in rural South India connect with speculation in global financial markets? How does the historic preoccupation with a precious metal relate to contemporary central banking?
Anthropologists Elizabeth Ferry and Allison Truitt discuss how materiality, form, history and institutions shape the interface between gold and money in India – and in transaction systems across the world.
SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Ferry | Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University Allison Truitt | Professor of Anthropology, Director of Asian Studies, Tulane University
Event convened by Nithya Joseph | 2022-23 Fung Global Fellow
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