Identity and nationalism in modern Argentina: defending the true nation

position in the fi eld and about power and trust relations between him and the research participants. More detail would have helped to place the research fi ndings within the framework of anthropological practice. Berta ’ s research sheds light on a little known aspect of the social, cultural and economic life of Romanian Roma by examining the ways in which prestige objects are valued, exchanged, safeguarded and embedded in discourses. This is a relevant book for economic anthropolo-gists, scholars of material culture and consumption and people working in the fi eld of Romani studies.