Money Matters: Instability, Values, and Social Payments in the Modern History of West African CommunitiesJane I. Guyer James Currey, 1995 - 331 sider "By examining currency and value in African communities over the past hundred years, this collection offers a social history of ordinary people's conceptions of money, their innovations in its use, and the interactions between indigenous monetary systems and those emanating from the international arena. The contributors to this volume include British, French, Ghanaian, Nigerian, and American scholars, all recognized specialists in the history, economics, and anthropology of African societies. Money Matters offers an essential complement to the new history of imperialism, suggests fresh ways of analyzing money in those vast areas of the globe outside the centers of financial power, and contributes to a new economic anthropology of West Africa."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Side 53
... Inflation in Dahomey in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ROBIN LAW This chapter considers the question of the instability of currency values in a pre- colonial context , with reference principally to the kingdom of Dahomey , in ...
... Inflation in Dahomey in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ROBIN LAW This chapter considers the question of the instability of currency values in a pre- colonial context , with reference principally to the kingdom of Dahomey , in ...
Side 67
... inflation ( 1864 , 2 : 162 ) . In the early colonial period , however , the rate is reported as 6 fr.50 , which at 4,000 to the franc gives a figure of only 26,000 cow- ries ( Le Herissé 1911 : 206 ) . Despite the fragmentary character ...
... inflation ( 1864 , 2 : 162 ) . In the early colonial period , however , the rate is reported as 6 fr.50 , which at 4,000 to the franc gives a figure of only 26,000 cow- ries ( Le Herissé 1911 : 206 ) . Despite the fragmentary character ...
Side 68
... inflation of the nineteenth century , it makes best sense in that context ( 1987 , 1 : 453–4 ) . The reluctance to accept cowries may also have affected social payments , such as bridewealth , as well as market transactions ; it is at ...
... inflation of the nineteenth century , it makes best sense in that context ( 1987 , 1 : 453–4 ) . The reluctance to accept cowries may also have affected social payments , such as bridewealth , as well as market transactions ; it is at ...
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The Currency Interface and Its Dynamics | 1 |
A Case Study | 8 |
Precolonial Currency Dynamics | 35 |
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