Robert Launay

Traders Without Trade

Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' Dyula communities into a modern town.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040310
• ISBN-10: 0521040310
• Artikelnr.: 23026077

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures, maps and tables
Preface
1. Introduction: the people and the problem
Part I. The Legacy of the Past: 2. Dyula and Senufo
3. Warriors, scholars and traders
4. Clansmen and kinsmen
5. The mechanics of marriage
Part II. Responses to Change: 6. The seeds of change
7. Occupation, migration and education
8. Being Dyula in the twentieth century
9. Dyula Islam: the new orthodoxy
10. Kinship in a changing world
11. Conclusions: Heraclitus' paradox
Notes
Bibliography
Index.