An edition of Credit, currencies, and culture
(1999)
Credit, currencies, and culture
African financial institutions in historical perspective
by Jane I. Guyer
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Publish Date
1999
Publisher
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
Nordic Africa Institute
Language
English
Pages
174
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Subjects
Financial institutions, Credit, History, Economic conditions, MoneyPlaces
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Table of Contents
Introduction / 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Most 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 Univeristy, during the winter of 1996.
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