Maurer Mutual Life, Limited

Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4071-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

A Note on Transliteration xxi

INTRODUCTION: Lateral Reasons for a Post-reflexive Anthropology 1

CHAPTER 1: In the Matter of Islamic Banking and Local Currencies 24

CHAPTER 2: Of Law and Belief 55

CHAPTER 3: Of Monetary Alternatives and the Limits of Values Past 77

CHAPTER 4: Innumerate Equivalencies: Making Change with Alternative Currencies 100

CHAPTER 5: Wiseman's and Fool's Gold 122

CHAPTER 6: Mutual Life, Limited: Insurance, Moral Value, and Bureaucratic Form 136

CONCLUSION: Restaging Abstraction and Adequation 154

Notes 169

References Cited 185

Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

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.