Wari matters
Subtitle: ethnographic explorations of money in the Mande world
By: edited by Stephen Wooten
Series: Mande worlds; Mande worlds
Publisher: Lit; Global [distributor]
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Munich; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9783825890452
Subjects: Mandingo (African people); Money; Economic conditions
Description: Money, or wari as it is commonly know across the Mande region, matters and it matters in complex and important ways. The international contributors to this volume further the agenda pioneered by Guyer and colleagues in Money Matters: Instability, Values and Social Payments in the Modern History of West Africa (1995). The chapters draw on extensive field research in the region to offer theoretically compelling and ethnographically nuanced perspectives on the practical and conceptual integration of currency into the lives of contemporary West African people.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.