Mario Schmidt is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Cologne. He has published in journals including Africa, Ethnohistory, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. His research interests include the rise of behavioral economics in East Africa, the importance of part-whole relations for an understanding of money, and the impact of concepts from the natural sciences on the development of Émile Durkheim's and Marcel Mauss's thought.

Introduction: The Quality of Quantity: Monetary Amounts and Their Materialities
Sandy Ross, Mario Schmidt, and Ville Koskinen

Chapter 1. Is Gold Jewelry Money?
Peter Oakley

Chapter 2. Injury and Measurement: Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification
Anna Echterhölter

Chapter 3. Five Thousand, 5,00, and Five Thousands: Disentangling Ruble Quantities and Qualities
Sandy Ross

Chapter 4. "Money is Life:" Quantity, Social Freedom, and Combinatory Practices in Western Kenya
Mario Schmidt

Chapter 5. Money and Morality of Commensuration: Currencies of Poverty in Post-Soviet Cuba
Martin Holbraad

Chapter 6. 'Money on the Street' as a Hoard: How Informal Moneylenders Remain Unbanked
Martin Fotta

Chapter 7. What is Money? A Definition Beyond Materiality and Quantity
Emanuel Seitz

Afterword
Nigel Dodd