Gracia Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gracia Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gracia |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens
In the open marketplaces found in cities and villages throughout Africa, women traders usually predominate. This gives women considerable weight as economic actors, because these marketplace systems are the primary distributive networks in most parts of Africa. A large proportion of Africa’s consumer goods and foodstuffs move through their intricate chains of intermediaries, which can include market retailers, neighborhood shops, street vendors, …
Consulting Elderly Kumasi Market Women about Modernization
The African women traders featured in this paper count as ordinary women within their local community, but their vantage point on postcolonial transformations in its society and economy is quite extraordinary. As elderly to middle aged citizens of Kumasi, they have been living and trading in the
African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
Working the Field: Kumasi Central Market as Community, Employer, and Home
The huge Central Market in Kumasi, Ghana is a prized workplace for more than 20,000 traders. Being physically present is a primary work method for market traders, and also for an ethnographer. Lending a hand in various trading tasks clarified the decisions and intentions associated with them, their physical demands, and the politics of the market. The market also made intellectual demands; it immediately challenged the assumptions of homogeneity …
Managing Transitions and Continuities in Ghanaian Trading Contexts
A number of recent studies suggested that visuo-spatial perspective taking (VSPT) occurs spontaneously when viewing either a human body or an action by an agent. However, it remains unclear whether VSPT is caused by the observation of an (potential) action or occurs because the observer infers from certain cues that another mind is present (whether actions/action cues are displayed or not). To examine whether action cues are necessary for VSPT, w…
Proto-Metropolis Meets Post-Metropolis in Kumasi, Ghana
Globalization has transformed many of the transnational connections experienced by the diverse constellation of residents, emigrants and immigrants attached to Kumasi. Despite its modest size, these processes have not erased its material and symbolic primacy within its regional and Asante diasporic hinterland. The international flows of people and cultural and economic resources associated with metropolitan life have characterized Kumasi since it…
Market Association Leaders' Strategic Use of Language and Narrative in Market Disputes and Negotiations in Kumasi, Ghana
Contemporary market traders in Kumasi, Ghana, rely on the leaders of their market groups, which unite those who trade in a specific commodity, to settle daily disputes within the market and to negotiate with outside authorities during times of crisis. Skill in handling disputes by using the appropriate rhetorical strategies marks rising elders as potential candidates for future leadership positions. Conventional procedures have evolved to incorpo…
Negotiating Asante family survival in Kumasi, Ghana
Extreme flexibility in the residential and financial arrangements attached to marriage and matrilineal kinship have remained a consistent characteristic of Asante throughout this century. The constant renegotiation processes that constitute and renew family relations have kept them remarkably strong through a series of radical changes in the enacted content and boundaries of those relations, linked with dramatic fluctuations in the economic and p…
Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice
Conventional Asante gender roles in Ghana emphasize biological motherhood for women, but Asante assume mothers' loyalties and schedule conflicts will interfere with equally female gendered expectations within marriage, not with fulltime paid work. Asante express their maternal devotion most by working tirelessly to meet their children's financial needs, not by staying home with them. In this paper I analyze urban Asante ideals and practices about…
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women. Shirley Ardener and Sandra Burman, eds. Washington, DC: Berg Publishers, 1995. xiv + 326 pp., contributors, tables, notes, references, appendix, index
Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture; No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Cutting Down T…
Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. ROBERT McC. NETTING. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxl + 389 pp., figures, illustrations, photographs, tables, references, index.No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. SARA BERRY. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv + 258 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, Index.Cutting Do…
A Business of Women
Onions are my husband: Survival and accumulation by West African market women
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Colleagues and Customers in Unstable Market Conditions: Kumasi, Ghana
Class alliance and class fractions in Ghanaian trading and state formation
This article marks a return to an analysis of merchant capital in West Africa. Clark undertakes a longitudinal look at the patterns of populism and class alliances among Ghanaian traders from the pre‐colonial period, through the colonial period up to the current Rawlings administration. She draws attention to the transformation of gender roles in the colonial period stemming from the introduction of the ‘passbook’ system which enabled a significa…
Asante Market Women
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice
Conventional Asante gender roles in Ghana emphasize biological motherhood for women, but Asante assume mothers' loyalties and schedule conflicts will interfere with equally female gendered expectations within marriage, not with fulltime paid work. Asante express their maternal devotion most by working tirelessly to meet their children's financial needs, not by staying home with them. In this paper I analyze urban Asante ideals and practices about…
Negotiating Asante family survival in Kumasi, Ghana
Extreme flexibility in the residential and financial arrangements attached to marriage and matrilineal kinship have remained a consistent characteristic of Asante throughout this century. The constant renegotiation processes that constitute and renew family relations have kept them remarkably strong through a series of radical changes in the enacted content and boundaries of those relations, linked with dramatic fluctuations in the economic and p…
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women. Shirley Ardener and Sandra Burman, eds. Washington, DC: Berg Publishers, 1995. xiv + 326 pp., contributors, tables, notes, references, appendix, index
Onions are my husband: Survival and accumulation by West African market women
Working the Field: Kumasi Central Market as Community, Employer, and Home
The huge Central Market in Kumasi, Ghana is a prized workplace for more than 20,000 traders. Being physically present is a primary work method for market traders, and also for an ethnographer. Lending a hand in various trading tasks clarified the decisions and intentions associated with them, their physical demands, and the politics of the market. The market also made intellectual demands; it immediately challenged the assumptions of homogeneity …
Market Association Leaders' Strategic Use of Language and Narrative in Market Disputes and Negotiations in Kumasi, Ghana
Contemporary market traders in Kumasi, Ghana, rely on the leaders of their market groups, which unite those who trade in a specific commodity, to settle daily disputes within the market and to negotiate with outside authorities during times of crisis. Skill in handling disputes by using the appropriate rhetorical strategies marks rising elders as potential candidates for future leadership positions. Conventional procedures have evolved to incorpo…
Proto-Metropolis Meets Post-Metropolis in Kumasi, Ghana
Globalization has transformed many of the transnational connections experienced by the diverse constellation of residents, emigrants and immigrants attached to Kumasi. Despite its modest size, these processes have not erased its material and symbolic primacy within its regional and Asante diasporic hinterland. The international flows of people and cultural and economic resources associated with metropolitan life have characterized Kumasi since it…
Colleagues and Customers in Unstable Market Conditions: Kumasi, Ghana
Class alliance and class fractions in Ghanaian trading and state formation
This article marks a return to an analysis of merchant capital in West Africa. Clark undertakes a longitudinal look at the patterns of populism and class alliances among Ghanaian traders from the pre‐colonial period, through the colonial period up to the current Rawlings administration. She draws attention to the transformation of gender roles in the colonial period stemming from the introduction of the ‘passbook’ system which enabled a significa…
Asante Market Women
Class alliance and class fractions in Ghanaian trading and state formation
This article marks a return to an analysis of merchant capital in West Africa. Clark undertakes a longitudinal look at the patterns of populism and class alliances among Ghanaian traders from the pre‐colonial period, through the colonial period up to the current Rawlings administration. She draws attention to the transformation of gender roles in the colonial period stemming from the introduction of the ‘passbook’ system which enabled a significa…
Colleagues and Customers in Unstable Market Conditions: Kumasi, Ghana
Money and the Morality of Exchange
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
A Business of Women
Onions are my husband: Survival and accumulation by West African market women
Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women
Money-Go-Rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women. Shirley Ardener and Sandra Burman, eds. Washington, DC: Berg Publishers, 1995. xiv + 326 pp., contributors, tables, notes, references, appendix, index
Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture; No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Cutting Down T…
Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. ROBERT McC. NETTING. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxl + 389 pp., figures, illustrations, photographs, tables, references, index.No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. SARA BERRY. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv + 258 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, Index.Cutting Do…
Negotiating Asante family survival in Kumasi, Ghana
Extreme flexibility in the residential and financial arrangements attached to marriage and matrilineal kinship have remained a consistent characteristic of Asante throughout this century. The constant renegotiation processes that constitute and renew family relations have kept them remarkably strong through a series of radical changes in the enacted content and boundaries of those relations, linked with dramatic fluctuations in the economic and p…
Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice
Conventional Asante gender roles in Ghana emphasize biological motherhood for women, but Asante assume mothers' loyalties and schedule conflicts will interfere with equally female gendered expectations within marriage, not with fulltime paid work. Asante express their maternal devotion most by working tirelessly to meet their children's financial needs, not by staying home with them. In this paper I analyze urban Asante ideals and practices about…
Market Association Leaders' Strategic Use of Language and Narrative in Market Disputes and Negotiations in Kumasi, Ghana
Contemporary market traders in Kumasi, Ghana, rely on the leaders of their market groups, which unite those who trade in a specific commodity, to settle daily disputes within the market and to negotiate with outside authorities during times of crisis. Skill in handling disputes by using the appropriate rhetorical strategies marks rising elders as potential candidates for future leadership positions. Conventional procedures have evolved to incorpo…
Proto-Metropolis Meets Post-Metropolis in Kumasi, Ghana
Globalization has transformed many of the transnational connections experienced by the diverse constellation of residents, emigrants and immigrants attached to Kumasi. Despite its modest size, these processes have not erased its material and symbolic primacy within its regional and Asante diasporic hinterland. The international flows of people and cultural and economic resources associated with metropolitan life have characterized Kumasi since it…
Managing Transitions and Continuities in Ghanaian Trading Contexts
A number of recent studies suggested that visuo-spatial perspective taking (VSPT) occurs spontaneously when viewing either a human body or an action by an agent. However, it remains unclear whether VSPT is caused by the observation of an (potential) action or occurs because the observer infers from certain cues that another mind is present (whether actions/action cues are displayed or not). To examine whether action cues are necessary for VSPT, w…
Working the Field: Kumasi Central Market as Community, Employer, and Home
The huge Central Market in Kumasi, Ghana is a prized workplace for more than 20,000 traders. Being physically present is a primary work method for market traders, and also for an ethnographer. Lending a hand in various trading tasks clarified the decisions and intentions associated with them, their physical demands, and the politics of the market. The market also made intellectual demands; it immediately challenged the assumptions of homogeneity …
African Market Women: Seven Life Stories from Ghana
Consulting Elderly Kumasi Market Women about Modernization
The African women traders featured in this paper count as ordinary women within their local community, but their vantage point on postcolonial transformations in its society and economy is quite extraordinary. As elderly to middle aged citizens of Kumasi, they have been living and trading in the
African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens
In the open marketplaces found in cities and villages throughout Africa, women traders usually predominate. This gives women considerable weight as economic actors, because these marketplace systems are the primary distributive networks in most parts of Africa. A large proportion of Africa’s consumer goods and foodstuffs move through their intricate chains of intermediaries, which can include market retailers, neighborhood shops, street vendors, …
Economics (11 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economy (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)