Abstract
AbstractThis study examines critically how cultural traditions of counting and calculating effect normal transactions among illiterate (innumerate) women traders and peasant customers in and around the market places of Mendefera and Áddi Khwala in Eritrea. It looks at how non-written or orally transmitted numerical systems help women traders in business operations, and how such systems make them more capable of defending themselves against any form of dishonesty that comes with the use of the written word or number or in dealing with official accounts of government income taxes. Attention is basically given to the question of whether women traders make wide use of such socially and culturally relevant methods of counting and calculating in enhancing commerce despite the wide prevalence of innumeracy.
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