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Insect conservation and diversity.
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ISSN: 1752458X Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Wiley-Blackwell.

Money and the morality of exchange
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ISBN: 0521367743 052136597X 9780521367745 9780521365970 9780511621659 0511875614 0511621655 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.


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Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée.

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La Remmm est une revue de sciences sociales à Comité de lecture qui présente, sous la forme de dossiers thématiques, des études sur l’ensemble du monde musulman dans sa diversité. Articulée en deux séries « Histoire » et « Monde contemporain », elle rassemble les contributions, sur un thème donné, des spécialistes du Maghreb et du Machrek, des mondes iranien, turc et ottoman, des Balkans, de l’islam africain, de l’Inde et de l’Extrême-Orient musulmans.

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Islamic countries --- Mediterranean Region --- Africa, North --- Pays musulmans --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Afrique du Nord --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Musulmans --- 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other --- 74.15 large areas (geography) --- Africa, North. --- Islamic countries. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Periodicals --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Périodiques --- DOAJ-E EJETUDE EJPOLIT EJSOCIA EPUB-ALPHA-R EPUB-PER-FT PERSEE-E REVORG-E --- muslim world --- mediterranean --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Muslim countries --- North Africa. --- 2. --- messianisme dans l'islam primitif --- Messianism and astronomical events during the first four centuries of Islam --- fin du temps --- imamologie duodécimaine --- eschatologie alchimique --- Jabir ibn Hayyan --- le Mahdi dans le Maghreb médiéval --- la légitimité almohade --- le mahdi Tumart et al-Andalus --- Ibn Qasi --- prophétisme --- ancestralité et politique au Maghreb --- Ibn Abi Mahalli --- la révolte de Bu Ziyan en Algérie en 1849 --- Uthman dan fadio --- Haoussa --- the Shari'a in the Sudan --- sociologie --- engagement politique --- le Mahdawiya indien et l'Etat --- l'Inde britannique --- Sayyid Ahmad Barelwi --- hiérophanie et sotériologie dans les traditions ismaéliennes du sous-continent indo-pakistanais --- le mahdisme en Turquie --- l'incident de Menemen en 1930 --- Mediterrània, Regió --- Països musulmans

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