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The paper titled "Usage and representation of money in Seaside Tongoa: Perceptions of a Vanuatu's urban community through its socioeconomic relations" by Alice Servy is a master thesis that explores the usage and representation of money in Seaside Tongoa, a Vanuatu urban community, through its socioeconomic relations. The author hypothesizes that monetary transactions are new forms of real and symbolic solidarity that help maintain relationships between the members of Seaside Tongoa communities. The paper also discusses the emergence of paid employment in Port-Vila and Luganville, which has led to processes of urban growth and rural exodus in the Melanesian archipelago since the 1970s. The author presents her questions, research hypotheses, fieldwork, and results to support her arguments.