| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 464 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Stepping into the market -- The regional web -- Persistent transformation -- Buying and selling -- Control of resources -- We know ourselves -- Queens of negotiation -- Multiple identities -- Home and husband -- The market under attack -- Surviving the peace |
| Summary |
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 alongsid |
| Analysis |
Marketing By Women |
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West Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-453) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women merchants -- Ghana -- Kumasi
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Markets -- Ghana -- Kumasi
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Women, Ashanti -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Economic conditions
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Commerce
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Markets
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Women merchants
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Marktfrau
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Ashanti (volk)
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Vrouwenarbeid.
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Markthandel.
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Commerçants -- Ghana -- Kumasi.
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Marchés -- Ghana -- Kumasi.
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Femmes ashanti -- Ghana -- Kumasi -- Conditions économiques.
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| SUBJECT |
Kumasi (Ghana) -- Commerce
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| Subject |
Ghana -- Kumasi
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Ghana
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Westafrika
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Kumasi (Ghana) -- Commerce.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94001907 |
| ISBN |
9780226107769 |
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0226107760 |
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9780226107790 |
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0226107795 |
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1282538713 |
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9781282538719 |
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9786612538711 |
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6612538716 |
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