ISBN:
9781789206869
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
142 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in Social Analysis 10
Keywords:
finance and economics;money and banking;sociology;budgeting;british jeweler;blood money;germanic law;cosmopolitical;moscow russia;western kenya;havana;quotidian;materialism;abstraction;empirical interpretation;morality;study of money;ethics of money;anthropology;anthropologist;case studies;theoretical interpretation;quantitative nature;monetary systems;kenyan village;conceptual diversity;socialist havana
Abstract:
Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies including British jewelers, blood-money payments in Germanic law codes, and the quotidian use of money in cosmopolitical Moscow, a Western Kenyan village, and socialist Havana, the chapters in this volume offer new theoretical and empirical interpretations of money’s quantitative nature as it relates to abstraction, sociality, materiality, freedom, and morality.
Description / 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 Echterhölter -- 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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