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标题：A personal account of what I did during my stay at IIAS, or why I remained a cultural anthropologist
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作者：Satoshi Nakagawa
期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2006
期号：42
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：A few months after my arrival, I read a paper at an IIAS pub-lic seminar entitled 'From Paddy to Vanilla, Elephant Tusks to Money' (hereafter the 'vanilla paper') which dealt w ith three generations in an Ende village, from around 1960 up until now. Beginning with the idea of the Endenese tripar-tite economy (comprised of the subsistence, gift, and market spheres), the vanilla paper criticized the idea of money being an all-destructive agent, as advanced by P. Bohannan (1967), who described a society with a similar multi-layered economy (Tiv). The vanilla paper described how the Ende people, with the aid of some indigenous conceptual devices, managed to make the idea of money fit into their own cosmology – to tame and domesticate its power