Language:
English
Pages:
XXVI, 204 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Monograph. American Ethnological Society 42
Keywords:
Dahomey Benin
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Geschichte
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Wirtschaft
Description / Table of Contents:
Perspective - Part 1. The frame of history. 1- An inland dynasty and the Gap of Benin. 2. The challenge of the slave trade - Part 2. Patterns of the economy. 3. Redistribution: the state sphere. Annusal customs. Army. Economic administration. Census. Taxation. Royal equivalents. The palace. Administration and duality. 4. Reciprocity: mutual aid and cooperation. Work teams. Craft guilds. Familial aid. The best friend. The pawn. 5. Householding: land and religion. Plantation and peasant plot. The sib and the compound. Succession and inheritance. Ancestor worship and cult house. The economic balance of religion. 6. Exchange: isolated markets. No price-making markets. Compulsory use of money. No credit, cash only. Retailer's reward: double numeration. Settting the prices. Chaning the set price. Cheap food. Separateness of external trade from the market - Part 3. The slave trade. 7. Whydad: institutional origins of a port of trade. Ports of trade in early societies. Slave trade on the Gold Coast. Ardra: transition. On the Slave Coast. 8. Savi: Sovereign Whydah and the treaty. 9 The port of trade under Dahomey. 10. Fictitious European money in the slave trade. Native and European trading. "Weight of the measure". Sortings. English "ounce trade" and French "once" - Part 4. Conclusion. 11. Archaic economic institutions. Societal functions of archaic money. Cowrie and gold. Cowrie from north and south. Cowrie and the state. Status and state-building - Bibliography - Index -- Maps
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195 - 200
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