The Web of Producer-Seller Markets

Epstein, T. Scarlett

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“…The Asian women reportedly did not own a store, but the vendor's comments reflect different cultural expectations about the appropriate ways to transact in different places ( cf . Epstein :200).…”

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“…The papers also describe marketplaces in several different parts of PNG. Busse and Barnett‐Naghshineh further our understanding of continuity and change in the Goroka marketplace (Eastern Highlands), which (along with marketplaces on the Gazelle Peninsula) is one of the best studied marketplaces in PNG (see Barnett‐Naghshineh , ; Benediktsson , ; Busse ; Epstein ; Jackson ; Jackson and Kolta ; Pickles ). The papers by Hukula and Rooney describe marketplaces in Port Moresby, with Hukula describing the large urban marketplace in Tokarara, and Rooney describing haus maket in an urban settlement.…”

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“…Indeed, many marketplace visitors neither buy nor sell (Epstein :38). Historically, this created misgivings on the part of colonial officials who reproduced the separation between the social and the economic by imagining, in Jackson's (:176) words, that the ‘market‐place was for commercial not social transactions’.…”

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“…An important contribution of this paper is to provide a reasonably comprehensive reference list of the writing to date on modern PNG marketplaces. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s marketplaces attracted scholarly attention from anthropologists, geographers and economists (see Brookfield , , ; Benjamin ; Bourke , ; Carrier and Carrier ; Dakeyne ; Epstein , , ; Flores and Harris ; Gewertz , , ; Harding ; Hide , ; Hogbin ; Jackson ; Jackson and Kolta ; Keil ; Maclean 1989; Salisbury ; Mahoney ; McCullough ; Modjeska ; Sillitoe ; Straatmans ; von Fleckenstein ; Walsh , ; Ward et al , ; and Weinand ). By contrast, there was very little marketplace research through the 1990s to the mid 2000s (the notable exception is Benediktsson's (, ) research (see also Bourke ; Hide ).…”

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Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea: Place, Personhood and Exchange

Busse

Sharp

2019

Oceania

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In Papua New Guinea (PNG) more rural people, and especially rural women, earn cash from selling in marketplaces than from any other source. PNG's marketplaces are critical for food security, and for the redistribution of wealth. They are also important meeting places where people gather to see friends, hear the latest news, attend court cases, play cards and be entertained. This introduction to this special issue on ‘Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea’ reviews the history of PNG marketplaces and their contemporary forms. It charts their transformation from introduced colonial spaces into dynamic Melanesian places, which, as places to buy, sell and socialise, have become pervasive institutions in the lives of both urban and rural Papua New Guineans, and places where people interact with both known and unknown others. From this, marketplaces emerge as important spaces of moral evaluation and contestation in relation to what constitutes morally acceptable exchange and what practices are acceptable in these places. The paper demonstrates that exchange in the marketplace should not be reduced to commodity transactions, and questions assumptions about the types of people marketplaces create. It argues that the country's marketplaces are productive sites to consider ideas of exchange, social relations and social personhood, and that there is a critical need to understand the concrete details of what takes place in contemporary marketplaces.

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Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea: Place, Personhood and Exchange

Busse

Sharp

2019

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“…Professor Epstein joined the Market Research Society and began to turn up the volume in her advocacy of market research for development. She used her own work in India as a basis for several publications which, among other things, advocated the use of market research methods, suitably adapted to harmonize with cultural factors locally (Epstein, 1982, 1988; Epstein et al, 1998, 1991; Pushpamma, 1994). When she died in 2014, still very active at the age of 92, things had begun to change.…”

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Desai²,

Nairn

2021

International Journal of Market Research

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Morality and a Mosbi Market

Hukula

2019

Oceania

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Markets in Port Moresby like elsewhere in the world provide a space for economic activity and social interaction. This article engages with two moral concerns that arise from the market. Firstly, I present a description of how the ban of the sale of betel nut is being negotiated by vendors and customers alike in the face of threats of violence from enforcement officials such as police. Secondly, I present concerns that arise at the local Village Court, which is also housed at the market. Both activities invoke debate about morality as they raise discussion about citizen and government responsibility, ideas of place and ways of being.

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The Web of Producer-Seller Markets

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Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea: Place, Personhood and Exchange

Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea: Place, Personhood and Exchange

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