Mediating Money: The Social Life of Coins and Bills in Tanzania’s Spiritual Market
Name of applicant
Martin Lindhardt
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Southern Denmark
Amount
DKK 977,000
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
Based on research in Tanzania "Mediating Money" brings a fresh perspective to Africanist scholarship on entanglements of the economy with a spiritual dimension. Using different examples of ritual practices involving money, the book shows how physical currency can become an object of mediation that can link people’s economic lives to both divine power and the powers of witchcraft.