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The Caribbean market woman is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export an array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.

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"Gina Ulysse is the first anthropologist to zoom in on the far-ranging internationalization of Caribbean market women, and her analysis clearly and compellingly illuminates the historical depth, cultural intricacies, and political and economic stakes involved in their work and their self-making. There is no other synthesis and original research like this on socioeconomic agents who have emerged in response to historical shifts in Jamaica's place within the global economy in the past thirty years." - Faye Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226841212, 978-0226841212
      ISBN10: 0226841219
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      International economics Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Caribbean market woman is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood. Challenging this stereotype, this work offers a complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders who travel abroad to import and export an array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica.

      Trade Review
      "Gina Ulysse is the first anthropologist to zoom in on the far-ranging internationalization of Caribbean market women, and her analysis clearly and compellingly illuminates the historical depth, cultural intricacies, and political and economic stakes involved in their work and their self-making. There is no other synthesis and original research like this on socioeconomic agents who have emerged in response to historical shifts in Jamaica's place within the global economy in the past thirty years." - Faye Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age"

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