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African market women : seven life stories from Ghana
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ISBN: 9780253354174 025335417X 9780253221544 0253221544 0253027446 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press

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Onions are my husband
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ISBN: 0226107795 0226107809 9786612538711 0226107760 1282538713 9780226107769 9780226107790 9780226107806 9781282538719 6612538716 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics. Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens", Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.

Gender at work in economic life
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ISBN: 0759102457 0759102465 Year: 2003 Volume: 20 Publisher: Walnut Creek Rowman & Littlefield Publishers


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Traders versus the state : anthropological approaches to unofficial economies.
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ISBN: 081337619X Year: 1988 Publisher: Boulder Westview

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Traders in Motion
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ISBN: 1501719823 1501721348 9781501719820 9781501719837 1501719831 9781501721342 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials.The contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam's socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders and officials engage in on-the-ground contestations to define space, promote or limit mobility, and establish borders, both physical and conceptual. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals' notions of self and personhood, not just as economic actors, but also in terms of gender, region, and ethnicity. Traders in Motion affords rich comparative insight into how markets form and transform and what those changes mean.Contributors:Lisa Barthelmes, Christine Bonnin, Gracia Clark, Annuska Derks, Kirsten W. Endres, Chris Gregory, Caroline Grillot, Erik Harms, Esther Horat, Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Hy Van Luong, Minh T. N. Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh, Linda J. Seligmann, Allison Truitt, Sarah Turner


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Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures

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