"Caravaneers, Shopkeepers and Consumers : the Appropriation of Goods among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in Niger"

by Spittler, Gerd (2008)

Abstract

This article deals with “trading expeditions” as a special type of economic relations with foreign societies. Expeditions cover long distances. Nevertheless they are not organized by professional traders but by people who are interested in the immediate use value of goods. There are some similarities with migrant labourers, but in

Keywords

Anthropology, Anthropology Of Work, Kel Ewey, Tuareg, Niger, Consumption, Africa, Trading Expeditions

Themes

Spittler

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• https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/46469

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