The Primitive City of TimbuctooDoubleday, 1965 - 334 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 49
... cowries as they know that of francs today . The acceptance of a medium of exchange which cannot be consumed itself - cowries as against salt- necessitates easily available stocks of commodities for which the currency is exchangeable ...
... cowries as they know that of francs today . The acceptance of a medium of exchange which cannot be consumed itself - cowries as against salt- necessitates easily available stocks of commodities for which the currency is exchangeable ...
الصفحة 50
... cowries , they declined in value relative to cowries . But by 1940 cowries had been entirely replaced by the official French currency . * 3 The exchange in the year of 1735 was 2,000 cowries to a mitsqâl ( about 4.5 grams ) of gold ...
... cowries , they declined in value relative to cowries . But by 1940 cowries had been entirely replaced by the official French currency . * 3 The exchange in the year of 1735 was 2,000 cowries to a mitsqâl ( about 4.5 grams ) of gold ...
الصفحة 114
Horace Mitchell Miner. women by casting cowrie shells and reading the events from the positions in which the cowries fall . For example , one cowrie coming to rest upon another indicates inter- course and hence a child to be born . The ...
Horace Mitchell Miner. women by casting cowrie shells and reading the events from the positions in which the cowries fall . For example , one cowrie coming to rest upon another indicates inter- course and hence a child to be born . The ...
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The People of Timbuctoo | 11 |
The City Quarters | 32 |
Elementary Economics | 49 |
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