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Paléo-monnaies africaines.
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ISBN: 2110808969 9782110808967 Volume: 8 Publisher: Paris Administration des monnaies et médailles

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The perfect form : on the track of African tribal currency.
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ISBN: 9788890418617 Year: 2009 Publisher: Milano Galleria Africa Curio

Money matters : instability, values and social payments in the modern history of West African communities.
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ISBN: 0435089552 0435089579 0852556152 0852556659 9780435089573 9780435089559 Year: 1995 Publisher: Portsmouth Heinemann

Money and the morality of exchange
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ISBN: 0521367743 052136597X 9780521367745 9780521365970 9780511621659 0511875614 0511621655 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.


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Attitudes et comportements envers l'argent et le temps chez les Atetela (R. D. Congo): rôle des facteurs socioculturels dans le développement
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ISBN: 2872095578 9782872095575 Year: 1999 Volume: 334 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Academia-Bruylant

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