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040			_aMUL _beng. _eAACR
082	0	0	_a332.11096 CRE
245	0	0	_aCredit, currencies, and culture : _bAfrican financial institutions in historical perspective / _cedited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
260			_aUppsala, Sweden : _bNordiska Afrikainstitutet, _c1999.
300			_avi, 174 p. : _c22 cm.
500			_aMost 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 University, during the winter of 1996.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aIntroduction / 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.
650		0	_aFinancial institutions _zAfrica
650		0	_aCredit _zAfrica
650		0	_aMoney _zAfrica
700	1		_aStiansen, Endre.
700	1		_aGuyer, Jane I.
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