Home > Diane Publishing Books >   Shell Game: A True Account of Beads & Money in North America
	Our Price: $15.00 Year: 1996 Pages: 240 Binding Paperback ISBN 1562790803 Product Code: 078815785X

Description   Jerry Martien (au); Gary Snyder (preface). An investigation into the nature of money & human exchange, this book intertwines 2 stories. One starts in Manhattan in 1627 with the transactions by which North Amer. was “bought” by Europe. Shows how a gift relationship based on beads was replaced by monetary relations based on credit, & how ancient ways of bookkeeping, exemplified by the Iroquois wampum exchange, were replaced by a social contract based on scarcity & deficit. There is a parallel story set in the present in which he attempts to negotiate a book advance, & unravel a personal tangle of love & habit in his life. His search becomes an apology for cultural & monetary misappropriation.

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