Bill MaurerProfessor and Chair, Anthropology |
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Research Interests |
Anthropology of law; globalization; Caribbean; anthropology of money and finance; gender and kinship | |
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Academic Distinctions | Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research, 1998; Teaching Assistant Development Award, 1999; Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Teaching, 2000; Law and Society Association Article Prize, 2003; Victor Turner Prize, 2005, for Mutual Life, Limited. | |
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Research Abstract |
Professor Maurer conducts research on the anthropology of law, and the anthropology of money and finance. His first project was an ethnographic and historical account of the rise of the British Virgin Islands as an important offshore financial services center. His second major project explored alternatives to financial globalization that seek to rewrite the cultural scripts of finance from the ground up. These include alternative currency movements and Islamic banking. His research on Islamic banking led to a side interest in Islamic mortgage alternatives for home financing in the United States. Professor Maurer's most recent research has been on efforts to reregulate offshore finance using "soft law" rather than sanction. He is interested in the emergence of new forms of governance based on peer-pressure and peer-review. He has also been engaged in a collaborative research project on new forms and technologies of money, payment, and exchange. | |
| Publications | ACCELERATING POSSESSION: GLOBAL FUTURES OF PROPERTY AND PERSONHOOD. Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. | |
| PIOUS PROPERTY: ISLAMIC MORTGAGES IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Russell Sage, 2006. | ||
| MUTUAL LIFE, LTD: ISLAMIC BANKING, ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES, LATERAL REASON. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005. | ||
| 2003. GLOBALIZATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION: GOVERNMENTALITY, LAW AND IDENTITY. Richard Perry and Bill Maurer, eds. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. | ||
| 1999 GENDER MATTERS: RE-READING MICHELLE Z. ROSALDO. Alejandro Lugo and Bill Maurer, eds. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. | ||
| 1997 RECHARTING THE CARIBBEAN: LAND, LAW AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. | ||
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"The Anthropology of Money." Annual Review of Anthropology, 2006, 35:15-36. "Due Diligence and 'Reasonable Man,' Offshore." Cultural Anthropology, 2005, 20(4):474-505. "Introduction: Ethnographic Emergences." American Anthropologist, 2005, 107(2):1-4. "The Cultural Power of Law? Conjunctive Readings." Law and Society Review, 2004, 38(4):843-850.* "Ungrounding knowledges offshore: Caribbean studies, disciplinarity and critique." Comparative American Studies, 2004, 2(3):324-341. "Got Language? Law, Property, and the Anthropological Imagination." American Anthropologist, 2003, 105(4):775-781. "Please Destabilize Ethnography Now: Against Anthropological Showbiz-as-Usual." Reviews in Anthropology, 2003, 32(2):159-169. "Uncanny Exchanges: The Possibilities and Failures of Making Change with Alternative Monetary Forms." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2003, 21(3):317-340. "Modern Reflex." American Anthropologist 104(1): 324-326, 2002. "In the Mirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization." Susan Coutin, Bill Maurer and Barbara Yngvesson. Law and Social Inquiry. 27(4): 801-843, 2002. "Anthropological and Accounting Knowledge in Islamic Banking and Finance: Rethinking Critical Accounts." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, new series, 8(4): 645-667, 2002. "Fact and Fetish in Creolization Studies: Herskovits and the Problem of Induction, or, Guinea Coast, 1593." New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indisches Gids 76 (1/2): 5-22, 2002. "Chrysography: Substance and Effect." The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology (formerly Canberra Anthropology) 3(1): 49-74, 2002. "Repressed Futures: Financial Derivatives Theological Unconscious." Economy and Society 31(1):15-36, 2002. "Visions of Fact, Languages of Evidence: History, Memory and the Trauma of Legal Research." Law and Social Inquiry 26(4):893-909, 2001. "Islands in the Net: Re-wiring Technological and Financial Circuits in the Offshore Caribbean." Comparative Studies in Society and History. Summer 2001. "Engineering an Islamic Future: Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives." Anthropology Today. 17.1 (2001): 8-11. "A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda." American Ethnologist 27.3 (2000): 670-701. "Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance." Public Culture 11.2 (1999): 365-385. "Cyberspatial Sovereignties: Offshore Finance, Digital Cash, and the Limits of Liberalism." Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 5.2 (1998): 493-519. "Out of Balance? Konesans and First World Knowledges in Caribbean Women's Studies." New West Indian Guide 72.3-4 (1998): 297-304. "Complex Subjects: Offshore Finance, Complexity Theory, and the Dispersion of the Modern." Socialist Review. 25 (3&4): 114-145. Recent Book Chapters "In the Matter of Marxism," in Chris Tilley et al., eds., Handbook of Material Culture. Oxford: Sage, in press. "Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms." In Daniel Miller, ed. Materiality. Durham: Duke University Press, in press. "Re-Formatting the Economy: Islamic Banking and Finance in World Politics. In Nelly Lahoud, A.H. Johns and Allan Patience, eds. Islam in World Politics. RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp.54-66. "Cyberspatial Properties: Taxing Questions about Proprietary Regimes." In C. Humphrey and K. Verdery, eds. Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy. Oxford: Berg, 2004, pp. 297-318. "Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy." Eds. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier. Global Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp.214-232. "On Divine Markets and the Problem of Justice: Empire as Theodicy." In Paul Passavant and Jodi Dean, eds. Empires New Clothes. New York: Routledge, 2004, 57-72. "Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods." In Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, A. Cruz-Malave and M. Manalansan, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 100-133. |
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| Grants | National Science Foundation, 1999-2002, "Alternative Globalizations: Community and Conflict in New Cultures of Finance;" Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, 2003-04, "Articulating Islamic Knowledge to an American Dream: Islamic Home Mortgage Alternatives" | |
| National Science Foundation, 2005-07, Doing Due Diligence: Forms of Moral Judgment in the regulation of international finance | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Anthropological Association American Ethnological Society Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Royal Institute for Linguistics and Anthropology (Neth.) Society for Cultural Anthropology |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4488 | |
| Last updated | 10/02/2007 | |