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Tag: Anthropology

Interview & Opinion

21 September 2022

“Your bank balance is not the only indicator of creditworthiness”

Interview: Ingrid Ladner

The ethnologist Silke Meyer is investigating the significance of money in people’s private lives, the social functions it performs and the dependencies arising from debt. In this interview, she explains how social conventions define the “right” way to go about handling money and what correlations there are between debt and ethics. Continue reading ““Your bank balance is not the only indicator of creditworthiness””

Portrait

21 June 2018

Not between, but on two stools

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The expert in European Ethnology, Silke Meyer, on Tyrolean houses in Turkey, Turkish powdered soup in Fulpmes and why carrying debt makes you an entrepreneurial spirit in the USA but a loser in Germany. Continue reading “Not between, but on two stools”

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