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Separation between trading and home for Asante women in Kumasi Central Market, Ghana
Household economy : reconsidering the domestic mode of production • Boulder [colo.] • Published In 1989 • Pages: 91-118
By: Clark, Gracia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Clark examines the organization of Asante women traders in the Central Market of Kumasi. Clark first looks at Asante households and discusses the various types of exchanges that occur between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and lineage members. Next she looks at the relationship between households and trading. She argues that trading is not a household enterprise. Women may recruit labor and capital from among kin, but they work independent of their spouses and do not pool their income. According to Clark, women traders ‘actively engage in multiplex exchanges and recognize mutual obligations with as many kin and friends as they can manage. (114)’ A trader's business is her network.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Individual enterprise
- Family
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akan
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ;1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1978-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ashanti; Kumasi, Ghana
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gracia Clark
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-118)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89035017
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akan (African people)