Students at the University of California at Irvine have created an online exhibition on the anthropology of money, drawing on information from relatives and friends in immigrant communities in Southern California. The home page says:
"This project took the student researchers to Little Saigon, Little India, the Cambodian Corridor of Long Beach, Los Angeles's Chinatown, Little Armenia, the clubs of Hollywood, the dorms of UC Irvine and the barrios of East LA. It also involved phone calls to far-away relatives and friends, and travels through memories contained in family photo-albums, scrapbooks, and sacred texts."
The exhibition discusses:
- various types and uses of lucky money in Hawaiian, Chinese and Muslim culture
- tandas and cundinas: Mexican-American and Latino-American rotating credit associations
- Lakshmi and ritual uses of money in Hindu culture
- the mid-Lent festival in Armenian culture
- ghost money in Chinese culture
- 'edible money' in the form of dumplings in Chinese culture.
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