African Merchants in the Colonial Period: A History of Commerce in Damagaram (Central Niger), 1880-1960

Baier, Stephen

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“…Material satisfaction in the countryside entails dependence upon or power over other people (Baier 1974(Baier , 1976Kirk-Green 1974). Zinder is an economy and a culture (cf.…”

Section: The Journal Of Consumer Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

"My Favorite Things": A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Object Attachment, Possessiveness, and Social Linkage

Wallendorf

Arnould²

1988

J CONSUM RES

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We explore the meaning and histories of favorite objects in two cultures using surveys and photographs. Favorite object attachment is differentiated from the possessiveness component of materialism and from attachment to other people. Meanings of favorite objects derive more from personal memories in the U.S. and from social status in Niger than from object characteristics. Since favorite objects serve as storehouses of personal meanings, gender, age, and culture reflect differences in object selected as well as reasons for selection. In the U.S., photographs show greater proximity to objects that are symbols of others or experiences than to objects enjoyed for their own attributes.

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“…Material satisfaction in the countryside entails dependence upon or power over other people (Baier 1974(Baier , 1976Kirk-Green 1974). Zinder is an economy and a culture (cf.…”

Section: The Journal Of Consumer Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

"My Favorite Things": A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Object Attachment, Possessiveness, and Social Linkage

Wallendorf

Arnould²

1988

J CONSUM RES

650

409

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“…clients and children). Yaro handled much of the emir's commercial activities as well as his own (Salifou 1972;Baier 1974). …”

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Process and Social Formation: Petty Commodity Producers in Zinder, Niger

Arnould¹

1984

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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RESUMESur l' exemple des tanneurs et des potiers de Zinder( Niger) I' auteur analyse Ia place des petits producteurs marc hands dans le developpement economique de l' Afrique. Apres une revue de Ia litterature theorique, il passe a l' analyse empirique qui place les donnees ethnographiques dans une perspective historique globale. La confrontation des tanneurs avec les potiers lui permet de tester I' impact du caract ere urbain d' une occupation exercee par les hommes et du caractere rural d' une occupation exercee principalement par les femmes sur leur place face a I' economie du marche. Apres une critique des principales theories de I' integration de la petite production marchande a cette economie, I' auteur cons tate que les anisans conservent leur position economique grace aux reponses creatives qu' ils apponent aux contraintes et aux opponunites du marche capitaliste.

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“…According to a sample of references quoted by Morrissey, we can distinguish between three: 1] The first category is based on unpublished archival material: Vossart (1952) on a lost chronicle in Arabic covering Wdndala history as a whole; Habrazsewski (1967) on a Turkish travel book of the seventeenth century; Adeleye (1970) covering the time between ca. 1840 and 1900; Boutrais (1973) since 1890 and Baier (1974) between 1880 and 1960. Habrazsewski and Baier do not mention anything about W&ndala history.…”

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Publish or Perish, or How to Write a Social History of the Wàndala (Northern Cameroon)

Forkl¹

1990

Hist. Afr.

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It has been in the tradition of this journal to elaborate a methodological apparatus to scrutinize the evidence of older written sources on African history. However, for various reasons, we tend to apply a different standard to recent sources, apparently considering them reliable per se because they developed in the same enlightened context of Western intellectual life as our own. Book reviews, nearly the only refuge for Western self criticism, sometimes cannot achieve it, as I will show.The source on which I would like to comment is a dissertation completed at Boston University in 1984. It is based on oral traditions and for this reason, strictly speaking, a written source itself, apart from a number of published as well as archival sources, whose way of quotation will be re-examined below at first. The interviews were conducted by the author in 1974/75 (Morrissey 1984:225) with north Cameroonian Wandala and Shuwa Arab informants, some of whom I became acquainted with during my own fieldwork in 1984.1 would argue, though, that the following comments are not solely of interest to scholars specializing in northern Cameroon.It might seem to some rather heavy-handed to criticize so closely a doctoral dissertation, but American dissertations are freely available to interested parties in both photocopy and microfilm. As a result they are commonly cited in other works in much the same way as more formally published studies. This being the case, it seems reasonable to submit them to the same scrutiny as any other work in the public domain. I should point out that I conducted my own fieldwork in ignorance of Morrissey's work, becoming aware of the latter only after my return from the field in 1984.

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African Merchants in the Colonial Period: A History of Commerce in Damagaram (Central Niger), 1880-1960

Cited by 29 publications

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"My Favorite Things": A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Object Attachment, Possessiveness, and Social Linkage

"My Favorite Things": A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Object Attachment, Possessiveness, and Social Linkage

Process and Social Formation: Petty Commodity Producers in Zinder, Niger

Publish or Perish, or How to Write a Social History of the Wàndala (Northern Cameroon)

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