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GENESIS OF MONEY AND MONEY RELATIONS IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 5 (158). P. 211-216

The article reveals the specifics of the genesis of money and monetary relations in primitive culture from the perspective of facts stated in anthropology, which sufficiently suggested that money existed in primitive culture. Directly to economic exchange (barter), they were not required, but the money worked in non-functioning forms of exchange and initiated rational disposal of surplus. Money in the ritual exchange of “Kula” united the different parts of the primitive society, after that the economic exchange was possible. In the ritual of “potlatch” the money were fixed amount consumed for sacrificial benefits that had to return to the owners with increasing in future.

Keywords: money, culture, money`s genesis, primitive culture, money relations