Mutual Life, Limited : Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason /

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Based on fieldwork among Islamic bankers globally, this book questions the equivalence between money and ethnography and asks whether money can ever be adequate to the value backing it.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maurer, Bill, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Islamitische economie.
Bankwezen.
Kreditwesen
Islam
Money.
Finance > Religious aspects > Islam.
Finance.
Currency question.
Banks and banking > Religious aspects > Islam.
Banks and banking.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Banks & Banking.
Question monetaire.
Monnaie.
Finances > Pays musulmans.
Finances > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Banques > Pays musulmans.
Banques > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Finance > Islamic countries.
Banks and banking > Islamic countries.
Islamic countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In the matter of Islamic banking and local currencies
  • Of law and belief
  • Of monetary alternatives and the limits of values past
  • Innumerate equivalencies : making change with alternative currencies
  • Wiseman's and fool's gold
  • Mutual life, limited : insurance, moral value and bureaucratic form.

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