IS GOLD JEWELRY MONEY?

被引：1

作者：

Oakley, Peter ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Royal Coll Art, Sch Arts & Humanities, London, England

[2] Royal Anthropol Inst, London, England

[3] UCL, London, England

[4] Winchester Luxury Res Grp, Winchester, Hants, England

来源：

SOCIAL ANALYSIS | 2017年 / 61卷 / 04期

基金：

英国艺术与人文研究理事会;

关键词：

gold; hallmarking; jewelry; money chains; recursive divisibility; specie;

D O I：

10.3167/sa.2017.610402

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

This article explores the extent to which gold jewelry, an object type conventionally looked on as a means of display, should also be seen as a type of money. Drawing on historical evidence and ethnographic research, the analysis considers the ways in which two examples-the Renaissance money chain and the modern jewelry collection-exhibit characteristics fundamental to money: liquidity, partibility, and recursive divisibility. As a result, this study proposes that gold jewelry can best be described as a type of para-money. The article concludes that due to its ambiguous state, gold jewelry is able to act as a mediator in social situations where exchanges of money proper are considered unacceptable, and that this is an important yet under-acknowledged aspect of its social identity.

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