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The use of a transitional cloth-money token among the Wolof
American anthropologist • 57 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 1016-1024
By: Ames, David W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the use of cloth as a standardized medium of exchange by the Wolof during the 19th century; the factors effecting its value; its function in 'internal' and 'external' trade; and its probale origin.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Medium of exchange
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Price and value
- External trade
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- 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
- Western 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- eighteenth-nineteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gambia and Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- David W. Ames
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)