RIVALLAIN, Josette. Échanges et pratiques monétaires en Afri - Lot 150

RIVALLAIN, Josette. Échanges et pratiques monétaires en Afrique du XVe au XIXe siècles à travers les récits de voyageurs. Paris and Lyon, Musée de l'homme (collection "Écrits monétaires") and Association des amis du musée de l'homme, 1994. In-4 paperback, white cover illustrated in blue. 150 pages, 18 plates in b&w off-text. Cover scratched and yellowed, slight rubbing to spine, margins yellowed. Third book in the Écrits monétaires series, edited by J.M. Servet with the support of Lyonnaise de Banque. The author offers a study of monetary exchanges and practices in Africa from the 15th to the 19th centuries, through the accounts of European and Arab travelers and merchants. "Beyond the description of monetary objects and practices, and their evolution under external constraints, Josette Rivallain, ethno-archaeologist and senior lecturer at the Musée de l'Homme, shows us money as an entity full of life, of which each society has a different image." (4th cover). Fresh interior.