“They Drink Because They Don’t Have Money, and They Don’t Have Money Because They Drink”: Relation to Alcohol and Money Within a Chukotkan Village
Based on ethnographic material gathered during our fieldwork, this article examines the link between alcohol and money as analytical tools of social and cultural relations in Chukotkan villages. It describes the alcohol-money exchange process in villages, representations of the relations between value of money and alcohol, drinkers’ personal budget, saving habits on buying alcohol, and the influence of money and alcohol management on partitions within the local community.