informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist and self-making in Jamaica
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ulysse, Gina A.
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- LAT 53 2007
- Thesaurus
- handel, ondernemers, internationaal, informele sector, gender, sociale klasse, zwarte vrouwen, Jamaica, Caraïbisch gebied
- Description
- The 'market woman' is ingrained in popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the Caribbean. Ulysse, a Haitian-American anthropologist, offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export the goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Informing her story of their self-making with reflections on her own experience, she combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.