Mutual Life, Limited : : Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason / / Bill Maurer.
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 in...
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Maurer, Bill, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mutual Life, Limited : Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason / Bill Maurer. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2005 1 online resource (240 p.) : 5 halftones. 5 line illus. 3 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION. Lateral Reasons for a Post-reflexive Anthropology -- CHAPTER 1. In the Matter of Islamic Banking and Local Currencies -- CHAPTER 2. Of Law and Belief -- CHAPTER 3. Of Monetary Alternatives and the Limits of Values Past -- CHAPTER 4. Innumerate Equivalencies: Making Change with Alternative Currencies -- CHAPTER 5. Wiseman's and Fool's Gold -- CHAPTER 6. Mutual Life, Limited: Insurance, Moral Value, and Bureaucratic Form -- CONCLUSION. Restaging Abstraction and Adequation -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 practitioners in the United States, Indonesia, and elsewhere, this book exploits the convergence between the reflexivity of monetary alternatives and social inquiry by questioning the equivalence between money and ethnography. Can money ever be adequate to the value backing it? Can social description ever be adequate to messy and contingent realities? Bill Maurer's ethnographic discovery is that ethnography as such--the holistic description of a way of life--cannot be sustained when faced with a set of practices that anticipates and incorporates it in advance. His fluently written book represents an unprecedented critique of social scientific approaches to money through an ethnographic description of specific monetary alternatives, while also speaking broadly to the very problem of anthropological knowledge in the twenty-first century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Banks and banking Religious aspects Islam. Banks and banking Islamic countries. Currency question. Finance Religious aspects Islam. Finance Islamic countries. Money. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691121970 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840717 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840717 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840717.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION. Lateral Reasons for a Post-reflexive Anthropology -- CHAPTER 1. In the Matter of Islamic Banking and Local Currencies -- CHAPTER 2. Of Law and Belief -- CHAPTER 3. Of Monetary Alternatives and the Limits of Values Past -- CHAPTER 4. Innumerate Equivalencies: Making Change with Alternative Currencies -- CHAPTER 5. Wiseman's and Fool's Gold -- CHAPTER 6. Mutual Life, Limited: Insurance, Moral Value, and Bureaucratic Form -- CONCLUSION. Restaging Abstraction and Adequation -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index |
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