Marchés, échanges et relations sociales au Buganda à la fin du xixe siècle

Médard, Henri

doi:10.3917/afhi.005.0147

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“…It is undeniable that the agglomeration of similar goods and services is evident in economic practices across many parts of the world, past and present. Some of the examples we have mentioned in our introductionthe clustering together of people selling the same thing, be it vegetables, roast pork or prepaid phone creditcall to mind parallels such as Roman 3 There are uncertainties about whether and in what form markets existed in central Uganda prior to Swahili coastal traders and European colonizers (Médard 2006). A reason for this is that early anthropological scholarship was more interested in capturing colonial disruptions of local economies and value systems than in precolonial histories of long-distance trade and African markets (Bohannan 1955;Bohannan and Dalton 1962;Barth 1967;Duffield 1981;Shipton 1989; see also Uzoigwe 1972;Peterson 2014).…”

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“… 3 There are uncertainties about whether and in what form markets existed in central Uganda prior to Swahili coastal traders and European colonizers (Médard 2006). A reason for this is that early anthropological scholarship was more interested in capturing colonial disruptions of local economies and value systems than in precolonial histories of long-distance trade and African markets (Bohannan 1955; Bohannan and Dalton 1962; Barth 1967; Duffield 1981; Shipton 1989; see also Uzoigwe 1972; Peterson 2014).…”

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On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda

Calkins

Zoanni

2023

Africa

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In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods – fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance – in a small shared area. This article brings the dynamics of this phenomenon into view under the heuristic rubric of ‘bundling’, reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala and on some of the phenomenon’s historical and linguistic scaffolding. We take this phenomenon seriously as an alternative form of socio-economic exchange and growth, one that is distinct from liberal and neoliberal imaginaries of an unlimited flow of goods, people, things and services. Bundling, we argue, reflects an aesthetics in which both material value and social relationships are imagined to arise through thickenings of persons and things, assembled and ordered in spatial proximity and symmetry. The article suggests that bundling offers conceptual resources to imagine growth otherwise, as a process unfolding in ways that complicate and clog conventional economic imaginaries.

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