Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion

The analytical distinction I am making between “shared” and “secret” accounts (more onthese to follow in my forthcoming blog posts) is an ethnographically driven one.Mayongians make distinctions between particular kinds of accounts on a token-by-tokenbasis, and sometimes as a typological distinction between accounts of discretion andaccounts of public audit.In my next blog post I will turn to the qualities and implicationsof this distinctionbetween secret and shared accounts, a distinction that can also benullifiedwhen we consider these accounts as modes of historiography.