o:id
	15708
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15708
o:resource_template
	Book
o:resource_class
	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in two Dyula Communities
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25174
dcterms:date
	1982
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114295531 Q114295531
	iwac-reference-0000736
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	The word dyula means 'trader' in the Manding language. It is also the name of certain Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in parts of northern Ivory Coast, who, for centuries before the advent of colonial rule, enjoyed a virtual trading monopoly over the local region. In the first part of this book Robert Launay describes two Dyula communities prior to the twentieth-century colonial period: he discusses the regional symbiosis between Dyula traders and Senufo farmers; the organization of Dyula activity; and the division of the communities into relatively small clan wards with high rates of in-marriage. The second part examines the ways in which both communities have adapted to the recent loss of their trading monopoly, and the strategies they have employed, such as emigration, the assimilation of Western education and the adoption of new occupations, to carve out a new economic niche for themselves. As an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' community into a modern town, the book will be of interest to anthropologists and others concerned with development and modernisation in Africa and the Third World.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
dcterms:provenance
	Cambridge
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1249
bibo:numPages
	185

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