African financial institutions in historical perspective /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Uppsala, Sweden :
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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174 p. ;
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22 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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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
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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