This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.
Sommario
Chapter 1 Dis-closing Intervals
Chapter 2 Dividing the Present
Chapter 3 Justifying Law
Chapter 4 Anticipating Life
Chapter 5 Promising Deliverance
Chapter 6 Contracting the Future
Chapter 7 Soliciting Time
Chapter 8 Rewinding the Reel
Autore
Konstantinos Retsikas is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London, UK. He is also the author of Becoming: An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java (2012).
Altre Informazioni
ISBN:
9783030349356
Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 454 gr
Formato: Brossura
Illustration Notes:XI, 274 p. 1 illus. in color.
Pagine Arabe: 274
Pagine Romane: xi
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