Indigenous currencies : leaving some for the rest in the digital age / Ashley Cordes.

Author/creator Cordes, Ashley author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]
Descriptionviii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Leaving some for the rest in the digital age
Contents Land Acknowledgment and Appreciation -- Currencies -- Land-Based Currency in the Rogue River War -- Beading Worlds and Leaving Some for the Rest -- Satoshi Nakamoto Is Part Snake : Tribal Legends and Bitcoin's Origin Story -- Snake's Counterstory -- Lives and Afterlives of an Indigenous Cryptocurrency -- The Polymorphic Blockchain -- Cryptocolonialism and Scyborgs Building Blockchain -- Potlatch 3.
Abstract "How Indigenous peoples have long been at the forefront of knowledge and innovation in currency and payment systems, inventing new methods to store memories, transmit trust, and create reciprocity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Cordes, Ashley Indigenous currencies Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025] 9780262383356
LCCN 2024034736
ISBN9780262552530
ISBN0262552531 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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