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Reliance on anthropological methods of intensive fieldwork, personal contacts and collection of case histories created the basis for this study, forming an ethnography of local class formation and struggle.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51139857809681,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51139860955409,"sku":"NIN9781107634909","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52331302256913,"sku":"NLS9781107634909","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1107634903.jpg?v=1786279319"},{"product_id":"congo-paris-book-janet-macgaffey-9780852552605","title":"Congo-Paris","description":"Examines aspects of the informal economy operating between Central Africa and Paris and its role in the identity of the traders involved.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51334133874961,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334136168721,"sku":"CIN0852552602VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51797589197073,"sku":"GOR003814662","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0852552602.jpg?v=1786133964"},{"product_id":"congo-paris-book-janet-macgaffey-9780253214027","title":"Congo-Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003eCongo-Paris\u003cbr\u003e Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law\u003cbr\u003e Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga\u003cbr\u003e Globalization as practiced by Congolese traders who operate a thriving second economy linking Central Africa and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e Congo-Paris investigates the transnational trade between Central Africa and Europe by focusing on the lives of individual traders from Kinshasa and Brazzaville who operate across national frontiers and often outside the law. Challenging the boundaries of traditional anthropology, Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga follow complex international networks to examine the ways in which the African second economy has been extended transnationally and globally on the margins of the law. Who are these traders? What strategies do they have, not only to survive but to shine? What kinds of networks do they rely on? What implications does their trade have for the study of globalization? The personal networks of ethnicity, kinship, religion, and friendship constructed by the traders fashion a world of their own. From Johannesburg to Cairo and from Dakar to Nairobi as well as in Paris, the Congolese traders are renowned and envied. This lively book shows that it is not just the multinationals who benefit from jets and mobile phones.\u003cbr\u003e Janet MacGaffey, Professor of Anthropology at Bucknell University, is author of Entrepreneurs and Parasites and coauthor of The Real Economy of Zaire.\u003cbr\u003e Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga teaches at the Centre d'Études Africaines, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and is author of Les Voies du politique au Congo: Essai de sociologie historique.\u003cbr\u003e African Issues—Alex de Waal and Stephen Ellis, editors\u003cbr\u003e Published in association with the International African Institute, London\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Traders, Trade Networks, and Research Methods\u003cbr\u003e Resisting Exclusion and Reacting to Disorder\u003cbr\u003e Commodities, Commercialization, and the Structuring of Identity\u003cbr\u003e Contesting Boundaries: The Defiant Search for Success\u003cbr\u003e The Organization of the Trade: The Importance of Personal Ties\u003cbr\u003e To Surve and Shine: Two Oppositional Cultures\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Wider Context\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51392196477201,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51392196706577,"sku":"GOR014253184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52399019426065,"sku":"CIN0253214025G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253214025.jpg?v=1789812669"},{"product_id":"coal-dust-on-your-feet-book-janet-macgaffey-9781611486872","title":"Coal Dust on Your Feet","description":"Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography covering a century and a half, looking at the lives and struggles of the immigrants who came to work in the Pennsylvania anthracite mines.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52331868356881,"sku":"NLS9781611486872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52495532327185,"sku":"NIN9781611486872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781611486872.jpg?v=1786271741"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-janet-macgaffey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}