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050 00 $aHG187.5.A2$bC74 1999
082 00 $a332.1/096$221
245 00 $aCredit, currencies, and culture :$bAfrican financial institutions in historical perspective /$cedited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
260 $aUppsala, Sweden :$bNordiska Afrikainstitutet,$c1999.
300 $avi, 174 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aMost of these papers were first presented as a seminar series, "Financial Institutions in Africa, historical and contemporary perspectives," at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, during the winter of 1996.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction / E. Stiansen & J. Guyer -- Finance and credit in pre-colonial Dahomey / Robin Law -- On currency and credit in the western Sahel, 1700-1850 / James L.A. Webb -- Slaves as money in the Sokoto Caliphate / Jan Hogendorn -- Islamic financial institutions / John Hunwick -- Islamic banking in the Sudan / Endre Stiansen -- Imposing a guide on the indigène : the fifty year experience of the Sociétés de prévoyance in French West and Equatorial Africa / Gregory Mann & Jane I. Guyer -- Kòse-é-mánì : idealism and contradiction in the Yoruba view of money.
650 0 $aFinancial institutions$zAfrica$xHistory.
650 0 $aCredit$zAfrica$xHistory.
650 0 $aMoney$zAfrica$xHistory.
651 0 $aAfrica$xEconomic conditions$yTo 1918.
700 1 $aStiansen, Endre.
700 1 $aGuyer, Jane I.