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BL
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| Record Number
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711392
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b533581
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| Main Entry
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Guyer, Jane I
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| Title & Author
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Marginal gains : : monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa /\ Jane I. Guyer ; with a foreword by Anthony T. Carter
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2004
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| Series Statement
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The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ;; 1997
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| Page. NO
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xvii, 207 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226311155 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226311163 (pbk : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index
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| Contents
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Diversity, bewilderment, and the multiplicity of African money -- Conversions : asymmetrical transactions -- Calculation : number and asymmetry -- Rank : people and money -- Quality : commodities and price -- Volatility : a performance in modern Nigeria -- Institutions : repertoires of financial option -- Balances : household budgets in a Ghanaian study -- Formalities : fixing debt and delay -- Bewilderment revisited
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| Subject
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Economic anthropology-- Africa, West
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Money-- Africa, West-- History
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Africa, West, Economic conditions
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Africa, West, Social conditions
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| Dewey Classification
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332.4/967
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| LC Classification
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HG1370.G89 2004
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