Dinheiro, tecidos, rum e a estética do eclipsamento em Saamaka

Among the Saamaka Maroons (or Businenge) of Upper Suriname, despite growing monetization and their integration into the global capitalist economy, there are some types of exchange in which money is not supposed to circulate, at least not explicitly. In these exchanges, objects – revealingly, objects...

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Autor: Rogério Brittes Wanderley Pires
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositório:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/38490
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442017v23n3p545
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/38490
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Saamaka
Economia
Dinheiro
Dádivas
Troca
Escravos fugitivos
Suriname
Guiana Francesa
Moeda
Relações de troca (Economia)
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Resumo:Among the Saamaka Maroons (or Businenge) of Upper Suriname, despite growing monetization and their integration into the global capitalist economy, there are some types of exchange in which money is not supposed to circulate, at least not explicitly. In these exchanges, objects – revealingly, objects of foreign manufacturing – act in a way similar to “currencies”. The rejection by the Saamaka of money in certain spheres in which objects, persons, services and words circulate will lead us to the classic – and so often muddled – anthropological distinction between gifts and commodities. I will try to understand how the distinction between exteriority and the interiority is composed in Saamaka, and how money is marked as external, while “gifts”, such as rum and fabric, are made internal.