2001
DOI: 10.3406/numi.2001.2321
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Aperçu sur les monnaies d'Afrique

Abstract: Résumé. — Les sociétés africaines ont utilisé des objets différents dans les échanges. Leurs formes et leurs constitutions ont souvent alimenté des polémiques sur la question de l'existence des monnaies traditionnelles africaines. Étant, par excellence un phénomène culturel, la monnaie ne peut être comprise que si l'on essaie de prendre en considération les tenants et les aboutissants des choix. Cet article a pour but de remettre en cause les présupposés dogmatiques et de mettre en lumière une partie des conna… Show more

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“…Without exception, the features presented here were furnished with iron artifacts of various shapes. According to ethnographic sources from the late nineteeth and early twentieth century, iron was a valuable material in the area, used not only for mundane practices, but also on special occasions and for ritual customs (Tessmann 1913;Guyer 1986;Edoumba 2001;Jindra 2005). There is no reason to believe that this has changed since prehistoric times, especially since the artifacts from both ethnographic and archaeological times are identically shaped.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Without exception, the features presented here were furnished with iron artifacts of various shapes. According to ethnographic sources from the late nineteeth and early twentieth century, iron was a valuable material in the area, used not only for mundane practices, but also on special occasions and for ritual customs (Tessmann 1913;Guyer 1986;Edoumba 2001;Jindra 2005). There is no reason to believe that this has changed since prehistoric times, especially since the artifacts from both ethnographic and archaeological times are identically shaped.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%