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.
| ISBN: | 9781789206845 |
| Publication date: | 16th January 2020 |
| Author: | Mario Schmidt, Sandy Ross |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 142 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Social Analysis |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Economic theory and philosophy Sociology and anthropology |