Downtown ladies : informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica /

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The Caribbean?market woman? is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ulysse, Gina Athena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
Temas:
Street vendors > Jamaica.
Women merchants > Jamaica.
Informal sector (Economics) > Jamaica.
Imports > Jamaica.
Vendeurs de rue > Jamaïque.
Commerçantes > Jamaïque.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Jamaïque.
Importations > Jamaïque.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Retailing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > Direct.
TRAVEL > Shopping.
Imports
Informal sector (Economics)
Street vendors
Women merchants
Jamaica
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Caribbean?market woman? is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders?known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs?who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergenc.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
ISBN:9780226841236
0226841235
9786611966690
6611966692

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