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Kin groups in a Haitian market
Man • 62 (9) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 145-149
By: Legerman, Caroline J..
Abstract
This article deals with the significance of kin groups among market women in northern Haiti. It focuses on the significance of kinship ties in fascilitating the selling of eggs and live fowl by rural women in nearby urban markets. It discusses how these women organized themselves into 'working units' by cultivating kinship, both actual and artificial, ties among themselves. These ties helped them to sanctioned specific rights and reciprocal duties to each others.
- Subjects
- Internal trade
- Retail marketing
- Buying and selling
- Kin relationships
- Gender status
- Mutual aid
- Social relationships and groups
- Wholesale marketing
- Price and value
- Production and supply
- Transmission of skills
- Classes
- Artificial kin relationships
- culture
- Haitians
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field Date
- 1961
- Coverage Date
- 1961-1962
- Coverage Place
- Haiti
- Notes
- Miss Caroline J. Legerman
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- sf 80000548
- LCSH
- Haitians