Trade and society in the Western Sahara and the Western Sudan: an overview

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Title:	Trade and society in the Western Sahara and the Western Sudan: an overview
Author:	Perinbam, B. Marie
Year:	1972
Periodical:	Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines
Volume:	34
Issue:	4
Pages:	778-801
Language:	English
Geographic term:	French Sahara
Subjects:	society long-distance trade
Abstract:	Attempts to clarify some relationships between economic function and organization in the trans-Saharan and western Sudanese trade on the one hand, and political and social structure on the other. Based on the general assumption that in western Saharan and neighbouring Sudanese precapitalist-industrial societies, economic function and organization of long distance trade were embedded in social organizations, to the extent that even where political factors operated, most material exchanges fell within a socio-economic framework. The study is a general one, has a socio-economic approach, and is based on diverse sources which cover the western and southern Sahara and the western Sudan during the greater part of the second millennium A.D. Sections: Ethnic controls over trading areas - Market networks - The brokerage system - Estimates of trading profits - Summary. Notes.