Old ways and new means: Indigenous accountings during and beyond the pandemic

Purpose The study uses the case of an online-mediated barter economy that proliferated during COVID-19 crisis to highlight Indigenous notions barter, trade and exchange. Design/methodology/approach A netnographic approach was employed which involved collecting online posts comments were stored analysed in NVivo. This supplemented with field notes reflections from authors intimate knowledge context. These thematically. overall methodology is inspired by decolonising methodologies seek restore agency Peoples research towards self-determination. Findings suggest beyond crisis, social media (a new means) being used facilitate determinations of/accounting for value within. done through constant appeals to, adaptation of, tradition (old ways). accounting therefore best understood as so accountability values practices. Originality/value paper propose a re-orientation incorporates recent debates between disciplines economics anthropology on nature debt also re-imagining relations based within emerging system Fiji “old ways means” privilege overcome excessive essentialism.