Topic
Shell money
About: Shell money is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 29 publications have been published within this topic receiving 399 citations.
Papers
Book•
1 Jan 1986
TL;DR: The cowrie as money: transport costs, values, and inflation as mentioned in this paper The cowrie notes bibliography index is a collection of cowrie references from the last three centuries of the cowrie trade.
Abstract: Maps Tables and chart Preface Introduction 1. The cowrie 2. The Maldive Islands 3. The Portuguese domination 4. The Dutch and English enter the trade (seventeenth century) 5. Prosperity for the cowrie commerce (eighteenth century) 6. Boom and slump for the cowrie trade (nineteenth century) 7. Collection, transport and distribution 8. Cowries in Africa 9. The cowrie as money: transport costs, values and inflation 10. The last of the cowrie Notes Bibliography Index.
100 citations
69 citations
Book•
12 Apr 1995
TL;DR: Neither shattered Eden nor inflexible tradition - a hundred years of entanglement in East New Britain resistance through emulation - on patrols, reports and "cults" in colonial East New British duelling currencies, the construction of shell money as national cultural property from darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee, the invention of non-tradition and the inscription of national history in East NEW Britain first contact with God - individualism, agency and revivalism in the Duke of York Islands the triumph of capitalism in EastNew Britain? a contemporary Papua New Guinea rhetoric of motives
Abstract: Neither shattered Eden nor inflexible tradition - a hundred years of entanglement in East New Britain resistance through emulation - on patrols, reports and "cults" in colonial East New Britain duelling currencies in East New Britain the construction of shell money as national cultural property from darkness to light in the George Brown Jubilee - the invention of non-tradition and the inscription of national history in East New Britain first contact with God - individualism, agency and revivalism in the Duke of York Islands the triumph of capitalism in East New Britain? a contemporary Papua New Guinea rhetoric of motives on bloodymindedness in the Duke of York Islands towards seeing ourselves in the other.
59 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of shell money started about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought in Southern and Central California, dating back to about 2,000 BP, and was integral to bridewealth and debt incurred as part of this practice.
36 citations
1 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the literature in the field of bioinformatics and computer science, including a review of the most relevant works.xv.
Abstract: xv Acknowledgements xvi Chapter One — Introduction and Scope 1
34 citations
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