4/5/2023 0 Comments Monies or money![]() ![]() ( v) The social niches in which these qualities are brought together in transactional regimes. ( iv) The importance of the temporal reach of what constitutes wealth: over the short run, the life span, intergenerational succession, and in (legal) perpetuity (as for corporate and sovereign debts and specified assets). ( iii) Fictional units of account that serve to mediate both the memorization of nonreductive transactions and their nature as conversions. ( ii) Several types of positional ranking ranging from simple stepwise ordinal scales to iconic ordinality that creates a parabolic curve of value. ( i) The widespread occurrence of conversions, which bring together ranking principles within transactions. The paper identifies five findings that suggest foci for future research. There are four main sections to the paper devoted to ( i) the present continuum of hard to soft currencies as an instance of multiplicity, including discussion of different combinations of the classic four functions of money, especially the relationship between store of value and medium of exchange ( ii) the logic of anthropological inquiry into multiple currency economies ( iii) the case of the monies of Atlantic Africa, applying the analytics of exchange rates as conversions to African transactions and ( iv) the return to economic life in a present day Nigerian economy lived in soft currency and cash. Current variation in the forms of money challenges economic anthropologists and historians to review theory and comparative findings on multiple currency systems. ![]()
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