Traders Without Trade: Responses to Change in Two Dyula Communities

by Robert Launay

Book Overview

The word dyula means 'trader' in the Manding language. It is also the name of certain Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in parts of northern Ivory Coast, who, for centuries before the advent of colonial rule, enjoyed a virtual trading monopoly over the local region. In the first part of this book Robert Launay describes two Dyula communities prior to the twentieth-century colonial period: he discusses the regional symbiosis between Dyula traders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521040310
• ISBN13: 9780521040310
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"