Lost forms of money
By: René van Dijk ; translation Prof. Phil Brower
Contributors: Brouwer, Phil, translator
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Netherlands?]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789082523928; 9789082523935; 9789082523942
Subjects: Money; Dowry; Bride price; Goldweights; Wealth; History
Other titles: Women, pigs and shells : dowry payment, burial money, hoardings, means of exchange and status-symbol.; Your mother was only an egg : Akan and European gold weights, gambar, opium weights and other figurative weights.; Mad as a Hatter : dowry payment, offering money, grave gifts, hoarding, means of exchange and status-symbol.
Description: 'Women, pigs and shells' is the title of the first book. It makes clear what being wealthy was all about in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. A man needed a woman to raise his pigs. He needed pigs to buy shells or kina and he needed kina to be able to pay the dowry for his wife. The first book focuses on the lost forms of money of Africa, Oceania and Asia. It is a 400 page book with lots of photos of the items but also of the usage of the items, taken by travellers in the region. 'Your mother was just an egg' is the title of the second book. It was derived from an Ashanti-saying: Cock, don't have such a big mouth, your mother was just an egg!! The Ashanti paid for their transactions in gold and weighed the gold with special weights, often related to such a saying. In this case the weight is of course a small cock. The second book focuses on lost forms of money from America and Europe, grave gifts and (money- )weights.
Notes: Issued in case.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1. Women, pigs and shells : dowry payment, burial money, hoardings, means of exchange and status-symbol - 2016; title: volume 2. Your mother was only an egg : Akan and European gold weights, gambar, opium weights and other figurative weights - 2016; title: volume 3.  Mad as a Hatter : dowry payment, offering money, grave gifts, hoarding, means of exchange and status-symbol : America and Europe; title: 2017.