The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part I-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part I

Published:1970-01 Issue:1 Volume:11 Page:17-49
ISSN:0021-8537
Container-title:The Journal of African History
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Afr. Hist.

Author:

Johnson Marion

Abstract

This part of the paper deals with the cowrie shells and their import into West Africa, and the cost of their transport in West Africa; with the cowrie currency area and its changes; with the oddities of cowrie arithmetic; and with the final decline of the cowrie currency. A second part will deal with the value of cowries at various times and places, and with cowrie economics.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

History

Reference231 articles.

1. Newbury , loc. cit. 233 ff., quoted Col. Mircher's information from a Ghadames merchant ca. 1862 who paid 10,000 cowries customs at Agades.

2. De Barros , in Pyrard de Laval, op. cit. II, 384, n.

3. Christaller , ‘Journey to Salaga and Obooso’, Mitteilungen Geog. Gesellschaft zu Bern, 1886.

4. Meredith H. , op. cit. 183.

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