Juggling Currencies

Composición y grabación de la música para el documental “Juggling Currencies”resultado de
un trabajo de investigación entre el Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the
University of California y el CIESAS-Occidente con la investigadora Magdalena Villarreal, el Dr.. Lead la
Dra. Lya Niño y Joshua Greene en el trabajo de campo. Producido por Joshua Greene, Ana Torres, and Pablo
de la Peña. Guadalajara Jalisco. 2016

This 40-minute video takes an anthropological look on how people in two border contexts (Mexico/US) manipulate, manage and exchange money and social currencies. The film concludes that people simultaneously manage multiple currencies, normative frameworks and legal contexts and that getting by implies “juggling” currencies. This project, funded by the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, took researchers to the border communities of Mexicali-Calexico and the central Mexico ranch community of Sabinilla, in the mountains of Jalisco. This project was led by CIESAS-Occidente researcher Dr. Magdalena Villarreal. Lead investigators Dr. Lya Niño and Joshua Greene carried out the field work. The video was produced by Joshua Greene, Ana Torres, and Pablo de la Peña.