The value of coins in a sakalava polity: Money, death, and historicity in Mahajanga, Madagascar

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 735-762

  Lambek, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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