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Description for Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares Paperback. This volume studies women as economic, political and cultural mediators of space, gender, value and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies, the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 457.

This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies—multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research—the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household practices and economies are translated and transferred to the market, as well as how market practices and economic principles become integral to the nature and construction of the household.

Exploring the cultural identities and economic practices of women traders in ten diverse locales—Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, ... Read more

A final theme focuses on the cultural dimension of mediation. Many women traders straddle cultural spheres and move back and forth between them. Does this affect their participation in the market and their identities? How do ties of ethnicity or acts of reciprocity affect the nature of commodity exchanges? Do they create exchanges that are neither purely commodified nor wholly without calculation? Or is it more often the case that ethnic commonalities and reciprocity merely mask the commodification of social and economic exchanges? Does this straddling lead to the emergence of new kinds of hybrid identities and practices? In considering these questions, the authors specify the ways in which consumers contribute to identity formation among market women.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804740531
SKU
V9780804740531
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99-50

About Linda J. Seligmann
Linda J. Seligmann is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She is the author of Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes (Stanford, 1995).

Reviews for Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares
"This book is a diverse yet surprisingly comprehensive examinationof women's experiences as traders indifferent anthropological settings. The analytic traditions used vary, but what unites the essays is that the authors' overall concernis to show how gender ideologies and women's market participationinteract in ways that wehave scarcely understood until now."—Susan Russell, northern Illinois University "A compilation which delves into new areas ... Read more

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