Book
The world as marketplace: historical, cosmological, and popular constructions of the Onitsha market system
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By: Bastian, Misty L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the discourse surrounding Igbo markets. Bastion examines what people say about market fires and money magic. According to Bastian the discourse on money magic reveals ambivalency about the commoditization of society. Listening to what people say about market fires reveals the divisions and in Igbo society between locals and traders, city and rural folk, men and women.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Retail marketing
- Disasters
- Sorcery
- Purification and atonement
- Magic
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Igbo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- Book
- 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 ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1987-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Imo and Anambra States, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Misty L. Bastian
- Thesis
- UM T32022
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 540-560)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Igbo (African people)