Guyer, Jane I.

Marginal gains monetary transactions in Atlantic Africa. - XVII, 207 p. ill. - Lewis Henry Morgan lectures .

Diversity, bewilderment, and the multiplicity of African money -- Conversions : asymmetrical transactions -- Calculation : number and asymmetry -- Rank : people and money -- Quality : commodities and price -- Volatility : a performance in modern Nigeria -- Institutions : repertoires of financial option -- Balances : household budgets in a Ghanaian study -- Formalities : fixing debt and delay -- Bewilderment revisited.

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