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Author:   Mario Schmidt ,  Sandy Ross, D.D.S. ,  Nigel Dodd
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9781789206852

ISBN 10:   1789206855
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   16 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt, and Ville Koskinen Chapter 1. Is Gold Jewelry Money? Peter Oakley Chapter 2. Injury and Measurement: Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification Anna Echterhoelter Chapter 3. Five Thousand, 5,00, and Five Thousands: Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities Sandy Ross Chapter 4. Money is Life: Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya Mario Schmidt Chapter 5. Money and Morality of Commensuration: Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba Martin Holbraad Chapter 6. 'Money on the Street' as a Hoard: How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked Martin Fotta Chapter 7. What is Money? A Definition Beyond Materiality and Quantity Emanuel Seitz Afterword Nigel Dodd

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This compact collection focuses on money as number, seen from a wide range of perspectives. The style is impressively dialectical, offering hope that anthropologists may soon be open to more promising ways of engaging with money. - Keith Hart, University of Pretoria Why do anthropologists get so uncomfortable when it comes to working with (and on) numbers? This book provides answers and exemplifies what a quantity-embracing, yet ethnographically rich, economic anthropology can look like. - Stefan Leins, University of Konstanz

Author Information

Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Emile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss's thought.

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