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.
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).
1. Dis-closing Intervals.- 2. Dividing the Present.- 3. Justifying Law.- 4. Anticipating Life.- 5. Promising Deliverance.- 6. Contracting the Future.- 7. Soliciting Time.- 8. Rewinding the Reel.