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

"I enjoyed this book mightily. Not only is its topic--money in various manifestations--inherently interesting but the book is both theoretically innovative and empirically rich, as well as being well written."--Nigel Thrift, University of Oxford, author ofMoney/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation"This book represents an ethnography of a far more interesting kind than the standard sort. Its genius lies in the way its author has drawn in diverse social practices to comment upon (lie alongside) one another. Islamic banking is revealed to have much in common with local currency schemes, both being alternatives to capitalist finance based on interest. Because the subject is discourses of money, one would expect the text to be abstract; in fact the text summons myriad points that are splendidly concrete."--Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge, author ofProperty, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and ThingsMaurer, Bill is the author of 'Mutual Life, Limited Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason', published 2005 under ISBN 9780691121970 and ISBN 0691121974.