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Wan, Mimi Ye-Wo.

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The secrets to success: Change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992--1994.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The secrets to success: Change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992--1994./
Author:	Wan, Mimi Ye-Wo.
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-09, Section: A, page: 3422.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9945628
ISBN:	9780599474970

The secrets to success: Change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992--1994.
Wan, Mimi Ye-Wo.

The secrets to success: Change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992--1994. - 359 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-09, Section: A, page: 3422.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2000.

This dissertation describes the effects of commercial growth for Oyo Yoruba women who participate in the trade of processed cassava, or gari, to Nigeria's large southern cities. I spent 20 months, between 1992 to 1994, in Ibadan conducting interviews and surveys with processors, wholesalers, and retail distributors in the gari trade in order to describe the relationship between the practice and organization of food supply and the cultural and political institutions that structure short and long term interests in the regional economy. Urban food supply illustrates the linkages between culture and the political economy and highlights the importance of social status in motivating and directing Oyo Yoruba women's economic activities.

ISBN: 9780599474970Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The secrets to success: Change and continuity in the gari trade of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1992--1994.
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520 $a Historically, Oyo Yoruba women's participation in the food trade provided a stable economic base for their families. Before the expansion of the local economy during the late 1980s, women's trading knowledge, their earnings, and their wealth were private matters that enabled them to exert control over trade and their personal incomes. This includes the location of supply villages, distinctive measurement styles, and reinvestments that were traders' secrets to "success" even though such success was limited to maintaining a small but consistent income.
520 $a After national economic reforms in 1986, the growth of the local food trade forced Oyo women to reveal and modify their trading practices. Women's earnings were then actively invested in distinctively Yoruba social institutions that promoted definitions of wealth and success that transcended gender categories. These included participation and investment in convivial associations that bat and maintained wide-ranging and robust social networks that are the foundations of status and power as well as the construction of personal homes, which represented the most substantial expenditure in a woman's working life and provided tangible evidence of her ability to support a retinue of kin and other dependents. Oyo women's responses to new economic and social opportunities in the food trade of Ibadan document the character and direction of growth and change in a modern African economy.
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