OLD AGE AND MONEY: THE GENERAL NUMISMATICS OF KENYA

This research report examines the relationship between promissory acts and promissory notes in Kenyan history and its popular imagination. In Jomo Kenyatta’s classic ethnography of the Kikuyu, Facing Mount Kenya, he decries the corrosive power of money to corrupt the ritual techniques used to guaran...

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Published in:Suomen Antropologi
Main Author: Robert Blunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2016-08-01
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/59041/20435