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Zande markets and commerce
Markets in Africa • (9) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 536-560
By: Reining, Conrad C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general study of the Azande economy as it existed in the 1950s. The author describes various types of Azande markets, the variety of goods in circulation, merchants and peddlers, domestic and foreign trade, the use of money in exchange transactions, cotton marketing, and labor as a means of obtaining cash income in the society.The author notes that in pre-European times the Azande probably did not have established markets per se but exchanged goods between households. Under colonial administration, however, markets became a regular feature of Azande life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Textile agriculture
- Buying and selling
- Medium of exchange
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Retail marketing
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- August 1952-August 1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1952-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zande District, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Conrad C. Reining
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61012383
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)