Janet Macgaffey, Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

Congo-Paris

Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga teaches at the Centre d'Études Africaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and is author of Les Voies du politique au Congo: Essai de sociologie historique.African Issues-Alex de Waal and Stephen Ellis, editorsPublished in association with the International African Institute, LondonContentsTraders, Trade Networks, and Research MethodsResisting Exclusion and Reacting to DisorderCommodities, Commercialization, and the Structuring of IdentityContesting Boundaries: The Defiant Search for SuccessThe Organization of the Trade: The Importance of Personal TiesTo Surve and Shine: Two Oppositional CulturesConclusion: The Wider Context

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214027
• ISBN-10: 0253214025
• Artikelnr.: 22158806

Autorenporträt

Janet MacGaffey is Professor of Anthropology at Bucknell University, author of Entrepreneurs and Parasites, and coauthor of The Real Economy of Zaire. Re[acute accent over the e]my Bazenguissa-Ganga teaches at the Centre d'Etudes Africaines, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and is author of Les Voies du politique au Congo: Essai de sociologie historique.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Traders, Trade Networks, and Research Methods
2. Resisting Exclusion and Reacting to disorder
3. Commodities, Commercialization, and the Structuring of Identity
4. Contesting Boundaries: The Defiant Search for Success
5. The Organization of the Trade: The Importance of Personal Ties
6. To Surve and Shine: Two Oppositional Cultures
7. Conclusion: The Wider Context