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The role of money in the Zande economy
American anthropologist • 61 (1) • Published In 1959 • Pages: 39-43
By: Reining, Conrad C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper Reining examines the part that money played in the Zande subsistence economy of the 1950s. The author notes that money served two distinct roles in the economy: (1) as a special commodity associated with imported goods which it alone would buy, and (2) as a means of satisfying social obligations (e.g., in the payment of bride price, as gifts, etc.), and as a convenient substitute for goods and services.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Buying and selling
- Medium of exchange
- Internal trade
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1950s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zande District, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Conrad C. Reining
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 43)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)