Schmidt, Mario (2017). MONEY IS LIFE Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya. Soc. Anal., 61 (4). S. 66 - 81. BROOKLYN: BERGHAHN JOURNALS. ISSN 1558-5727
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This article focuses on how money's quantity is enacted as multiple in Kaleko, a small market center in Western Kenya. Residents of Kaleko conceptualize money's quantity as abstracting, concretizing, and recursive. Theorizing this ethnographic data allows us to understand money as a sign that stands against itself. The abstracting and concretizing properties of money's quantity symbolize what it means to be coerced to do something, while its recursive property symbolizes what it means to act freely. The article scrutinizes how money's recursive quantity thereby relates to one peculiar trait of free social encounters in Kaleko: it suspends the distinction between part and whole with the help of 'combinatory practices'.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-208386 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3167/sa.2017.610405 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Soc. Anal. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 61 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 66 - 81 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2017 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BERGHAHN JOURNALS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | BROOKLYN | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1558-5727 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20838 |
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