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
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
