In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today\'s leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing History and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card.
From the Hardcover edition.. 25,000 print.
National radio publicity.
Author tour. 320 pp.
In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today\'s leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing History and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card