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Collection A Narratives:
Port-au-Prince, May 1947–August 1948
Markets & the Role of Women pages 1 | 2
Festivals: Carnival & Rara
Photo Collections A:
En Route to Haiti
Haiti, Mountains
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince, Iron Market
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince, road leading to bay
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince, port area
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince city scenes
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince Hotel Excelsior
Haiti,
Port-au-Prince Carnival
Haiti, Carrefour
du Fort, pre-Easter festival of Rara
Creole orthography), they had a fine sense of costs and profits. Very young girls are given a start as traders by their mothers, whom they accompany although this practice is more widespread in rural areas than in the city.
Trading is a key element of women’s economic independence. It takes them away from home and family, often for extended periods of time. This is in strong contrast to the lives of women in the neighboring Dominican Republic, but strikingly similar to the economic life of women in several West African societies.
This collection includes numerous illustrations of a variety of markets and of sales activities.
References:
Mintz, S. M.: “Employment of capital by market women in Haiti," in: Raymond Firth and Basil Yamey, eds.: Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964, pp. 256–86.
Table of Contents, Collection B | Table of Contents, Collection C
Page last revised: July 31, 2007
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