Credit, currencies, and culture
Subtitle: African financial institutions in historical perspective
By: edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
Contributors: Stiansen, Endre.; Guyer, Jane I.
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Financial institutions -- Africa -- History; Credit -- Africa -- History; Money -- Africa -- History; Africa -- Economic conditions -- To 1918
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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / E. Stiansen & J. Guyer; title: Finance and credit in pre-colonial Dahomey / Robin Law; title: On currency and credit in the western Sahel, 1700-1850 / James L.A. Webb; title: Slaves as money in the Sokoto Caliphate / Jan Hogendorn; title: Islamic financial institutions / John Hunwick; title: Islamic banking in the Sudan / Endre Stiansen; title: 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; title: Kòse-é-mánì : idealism and contradiction in the Yoruba view of money.