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Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective

Title
Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective / edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
Publication
Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Guyer, Jane I.
  • Stiansen, Endre.
Description
174 p.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • 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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Call Number
JBE 00-1721
ISBN
9171064427
OCLC
44134497
Title
Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective / edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
Imprint
Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Guyer, Jane I.
Stiansen, Endre.
Research Call Number
JBE 00-1721
Sc D 01-661
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