Mutual life, limited : Islamic banking, alternative currencies, lateral reason / Bill Maurer.
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.
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
Summary: | 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. |
---|---|
Physical Description: | xix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0691121966 9780691121963 0691121974 9780691121970 |