Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City

Index

187 index 1-đồng notes, 115 1-hào notes, 31 $2 bills, 77–78 2-hào notes, 31 20-pastre note, 24f 50-đồng notes, 35 $100 bills, 62, 65, 76, 85, 105–6 100-đồng notes, 29f, 32f, 37, 115 100-piastre note, 30f 200-đồng coin, 117–18 200-đồng notes, 94, 115 500 đồng notes, 34f, 115 500 pisastre notes, 25–26 50,000-đồng notes. See fifty-thousand- đồng notes 200,000-đồng notes, 118, 123 500,000 đồng notes, 116–17, 118 ancestor consciousness. See spirit money animal imagery, 33, 34f anthropologists, perspectives of, 6–8 Army of the Republic of Vietnam, 9, 34. See also military backgrounds, disadvantages/advantages Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), 119–20 ATMs, 120–25, 168n19 Bà Chúa Kho, 95–96, 99 Bà Chúa Xứ, 95–96 bad luck vs. misfortune, 141–42 bangles, gold, 70, 138 Bank of Indochina, 22–23, 25, 32 bank sector, retail, 119–25, 168n17, n19. See also National Bank of Vietnam; State Bank of Vietnam bars, gold, 69, 70–71, 105–6 battlefield story, dollarization, 65 Bến Thành market, 106–7 Bến Tre market, 52, 55 Bernard, Paul, 25 big money, 76, 114–16 billboard slogans, 8–9 black market label, 48 blessings, temple deities, 94–99, 130–31, 136. See also spirit money borrowed money, supernatural powers, 95–99 Bourdieu, Pierre, 165n1, 167n11 branded objects, value assessment, 106 Bretton Woods system, 32, 63–64, 68 Buddhism, 99 Bùi Giáng’s money, 84–85, 93 burning of money, 27, 33, 87, 88f, 95, 101–2 buying hope, lottery tickets, 130–34 Cambodia, 20, 30, 165n34 capitalism, global, 3, 6, 9–10, 12–13, 15–16, 148–49 188 index copper coins, 22 counterfeits: as ATM distrust factor, 123–24; big money, 116; lottery tickets, 131–32; monitoring for, 109–11; with propaganda notes, 34; serial number strategy, 65–66; spirit offerings, 92–93 credit cards, 104–5 credit money, non-institution networks, 113–14 Cứu Quốc, 25 Cuba, 73 currency consciousness, 3 currency exchange booths, 38, 106–7 currency issuances: Democratic Vietnam, 31–32, 33; Institut d’Emission, 20, 30; postwar Vietnam, 35–36, 37, 38, 49. See also inflation; State Bank of Vietnam currency problem: piastre-franc, 22–23; during revolution, 26–31 currency substitution. See dollarization and dollars currency swaps, 33–34, 67–68 đồng notes: denomination quality, 114– 16; devaluations of, 4–5, 115, 165n33; issuance of, 20; motorbike purchase, 105–6; in remittance economy, 74, 75. See also cash entries; exchange rates, đồng; specific denominations Đài’s wedding, 54–55 Đổi Mới reforms, 16, 41, 43, 49 Daniel, Howard, 32 death anniversaries, 53. See also spirit money Debt (Graeber), 158n1 debts, 85–87, 93, 95–99 Democratic Republic of Vietnam. See specific topics, e.g., cash entries; currency entries; imagery; spirit money denationalizing money, Hayek’s proposal, 79 denomination as quality factor, 114–16, 117 devaluation, 13, 64, 68, 82, 115, 149, 152. capitalist money, currency purposes, 32– 33, 36 Caritas scheme, 135 car ownership, 169n3 cash: from ATMs, 120–25; as credit money, 113; for emigration, 56–57; household-based commerce, 51; lottery ticket mingling, 130; methodological importance, 6–8; with New Year’s greetings, 94–95; quality factors, 107– 9, 114–18; risk factors, 7, 118–19, 124; wedding gifts, 53–55, 70 casino capitalism, 135–36, 170n13 central marketplace, and household commerce, 50–52 Chín, Mrs., 50–52, 114 China: dollarization estimates, 165n34; money philosophy, 21; stock market study, 123, 143; and 2008 financial crisis, 148–49 Chợ Lớn, 150 chui, 168n1 citizenship classification, 36–37, 41–49 clipped coins, 108 cô hồn, 100 coins, 21–23, 91, 101, 108, 117–18 commerce, public spaces, 49–50 commerce backgrounds, postwar penalties , 42–43, 44, 136 Commercial Import Program (CIP), 67–68 commodity money, multidimensionality of, 3–8, 10–16, 149–53. See also specific topics, e.g., cash entries; imagery; spirit money concealing strategies, money gifts, 112– 13, 167n11. See also dollarization and dollars “Con Ó” symbol, 21–22 construction projects, 126–29 contraband shipments, embargo period, 73–74 contractual debt, 85–87 conversion process, red dollars, 66–67 index 189 feelings as valuation, 76–77, 145 fetishization of money, 155n9, 171n10 Fforde, Adam, 168n1 fieldwork, methodology overview, 6–8, 15–16 fifty-đồng notes, 35 fifty-thousand-đồng notes: and ATM...