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" Credit, currencies and culture : "
edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer
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BL
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606393
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b435612
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Credit, currencies and culture : : African financial institutions in historical perspective /\ edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer
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Uppsala, Sweden :: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,, 1999
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174 p. ;; 22 cm
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9171064427
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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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Includes bibliographical references
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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
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Financial institutions-- Africa-- History
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Credit-- Africa-- History
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Money-- Africa-- History
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Africa, Economic conditions, To 1918
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Guyer, Jane I
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Stiansen, Endre
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African financial institutions in historical perspective
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