Niara Sudarkasa reports on Yoruba women and their role as traders in Nigeria’s marketing system. During Sudarkasa’s 15-month fieldwork in western Nigeria, she spoke with hundreds of traders, men and women, in order to understand the Yoruba markets, the division of labor, the difference between urban and rural communities in the region, residence and kinship, and other complexities of Yoruba society.
- ISBN10 1949098060
- ISBN13 9781949098068
- Publish Date 1 January 1973
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher The University of Michigan Press
- Imprint University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Publications Department
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English