A01=Gracia Clark
academic
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african
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Author_Gracia Clark
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community
critical
daily life
dynamics
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economy
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ethnic
ethnicity
female
feminism
fieldwork
gender
ghana
kumasi
manufactured
market
marketplace
open air
political
politics
research
scholarly
social studies
society
study
survival
west africa
western
wholesale
woman
women
womens issues
Product details
- ISBN 9780226107790
- Weight: 851g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1995
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
