A Survey of Primitive Money: The Beginnings of Currency

by Alison Hingston Quiggin

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344 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1949

About the author

Alison Hingston Quiggin (1874 - 1971)

Reviews

[Joey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Largely out of date and old and pointless but in its day it was a landmark study. Influential on Graeber and Anwar Shaikh, this study is ripe with unprecedented illustrations of primitive money and ledgers of values in various communities. Some information like that on Oceania and Australia are very much out of date whereas her work on the Americas seems largely, unfortunately, our most in depth long form analysis outside academic journals in the last century.