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Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
Bill Maurer
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Description for Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
Paperback. Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? This title documents efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones. 5 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFSR2; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys both escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance, and reflects critically on their broader implications for scholarship. Based on fieldwork among participants in a local currency system in Ithaca, New York, and among Islamic banking ... Read more
Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to remake money and finance by Islamic bankers who seek to avoid interest and local currency proponents who would stand outside of national economies. It asks how alternative moneys both escape and reenact dominant forms of money and finance, and reflects critically on their broader implications for scholarship. Based on fieldwork among participants in a local currency system in Ithaca, New York, and among Islamic banking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691121970
SKU
V9780691121970
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About Bill Maurer
Bill Maurer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of "Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands", and the co-editor of "Gender Matters: Re-Reading Michelle Z. Rosaldo" and "Globalization under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity".
Reviews for Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
Winner of the 2005 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology "A fascinating study... It is ... quite possibly the best study in the English language on the topic and, to those involved in banking, currencies, and anthropological facets of economies, should prove of unquestionable value."
Haidar Moukdad, Digest of Middle East Studies
Haidar Moukdad, Digest of Middle East Studies