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As donations, pieces of clothing bear imprints of the Generic Ativan Photo aspirations of their donors, and as purchased commodities, they are Generic Ativan Photo invested with the desires of their consumers. This article describes a Generic Ativan Photo particular configuration of the international trade in secondhand clothing. The trade links Western homes with West Africans families in an Generic Ativan Photo intricate web; its history also shows a relationship between West Africans who Generic Ativan Photo claim to be of Jewish descent and Jewish secondhand clothing merchants.

“The Jews of Africa”
One of the Generic Ativan Photo most remarkable things about the West African secondhand clothing trade is Generic Ativan Photo that it is controlled, almost in its entirety, by Igbo traders. The Igbo are Generic Ativan Photo a Nigerian ethnic group whose members sometimes claim to be of Jewish descent. There is Generic Ativan Photo probably no better person to guide one through this tradition of Igbo origin than Generic Ativan Photo one of the most prolific and respected Igbo historians, Adiele Afigbo, who Generic Ativan Photo writes[i]:

‘The claim to Generic Ativan Photo Hebrew origin is the one of which we have the earliest mention, and Generic Ativan Photo that in the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, an Igbo ex-slave who Generic Ativan Photo wrote in 1789. Early in this century [twentieth century] the Generic Ativan Photo Rev. G.T. Basden saw a very close resemblance between Igbo culture and Generic Ativan Photo Jewish culture without quite saying the Igbo were of Jewish descent. But such was his form of words that Generic Ativan Photo the hasty would draw that conclusion. Then later, probably in the Generic Ativan Photo 1950s, one Ike Akwelumo asserted in his pamphlet The Origin of the Ibos that Generic Ativan Photo the Igbo were a branch of the Jews. According to him the Generic Ativan Photo name “Ibo,” used for Generic Ativan Photo the people during the colonial period, was a contraction of the Generic Ativan Photo word “Hebrew.” At some intermediate stage, he says, the Generic Ativan Photo word had been contracted to Heebo.’

Although not many Igbo historians take this too seriously – Adiele Afigbo himself seriously contests this story – it Generic Ativan Photo sometimes comes up in daily conversations. For instance, it is not uncommon for Generic Ativan Photo one to hear, during a normal conversation with everyday Igbo people, that Generic Ativan Photo they are the Jews of Africa because they are very famous as migrants, and Generic Ativan Photo because they are successful businessmen. This is particularly interesting in the Generic Ativan Photo case of secondhand clothing because the trade combines migration with business success; and Generic Ativan Photo their first regular suppliers were Jewish merchants.

Jews and secondhand clothing
In many parts of Europe, from Generic Ativan Photo the late Middle Ages, the trade in secondhand clothing was one of the Generic Ativan Photo very few economic activities in which Jews were engaged. This was primarily because then, trade and Generic Ativan Photo craft were tightly regulated by guilds, and owing to pervasive religious prejudice against Jews, they were excluded from Generic Ativan Photo guild membership. Only few marginal commercial activities were open to Generic Ativan Photo them. One of them was pawnbroking; the other was the Generic Ativan Photo trade in secondhand goods (including clothing)[ii].

In England, between the Generic Ativan Photo seventeenth and early nineteenth century, the trade was known as a Generic Ativan Photo Jewish trade. In the mornings, Jewish clothes traders would walk through the Generic Ativan Photo streets of middle-class and aristocratic areas of London, shouting “Old Clothes”, to attract the attention of servants who had their masters’ cast-offs to Generic Ativan Photo sell. After a successful morning, they would go back to Generic Ativan Photo a part of the city called Rag Fair, where they would sell to Generic Ativan Photo other Jewish secondhand clothing dealers who would repair the garments for Generic Ativan Photo resale in their shops. Some contemporary writers claim that in the Generic Ativan Photo mid-eighteenth century, there were as many as two thousand Jewish Old Clothes men in London alone[iii].

In the Generic Ativan Photo nineteenth century New York, immigrant Jews of Eastern European origin would walk through the Generic Ativan Photo streets shouting “Rags, Bones, Bottles![iv]” Some of them later introduced the Generic Ativan Photo trade to other parts of the United States. By the twentieth century, second generation migrants still operated some of the Generic Ativan Photo family businesses that were founded then. Some of these were the Generic Ativan Photo first regular suppliers of secondhand clothing to Igbo importers in West Africa.

The Igbo and secondhand clothing
The Igbo first became involved in the Generic Ativan Photo secondhand clothing trade in the 1940s, when they bought Army surplus stock during and Generic Ativan Photo after the Second World War. The clothing was obtained from ships that Generic Ativan Photo were berthed in Port Harcourt, part of the now infamous Niger Delta region. By the Generic Ativan Photo 1950s, many of the traders started importing secondhand clothing directly from Generic Ativan Photo the New York-based Jewish merchants. They would get unsorted, bundled, shipments of secondhand clothing – the Generic Ativan Photo finesse that now characterizes the packaging was to come later. From the Generic Ativan Photo importers, fellow Igbo retailers would buy collections of secondhand clothing, which they would retail in other parts of Nigeria. Later, in the Generic Ativan Photo early 1960s, Igbo traders started re-exporting secondhand clothing from Nigeria to Generic Ativan Photo other parts of West Africa. Destination countries included Benin, Togo, Ghana and Generic Ativan Photo Cameroon.

Today, the Generic Ativan Photo main secondhand clothing markets in Cotonou and Lome, the capitals of Benin Republic and Generic Ativan Photo Togo respectively, are dominated and controlled by Igbo traders. Some of them are Generic Ativan Photo importers, who have established and maintained trading connections with European and Generic Ativan Photo American secondhand clothing firms; others are retailers, who sell bales of secondhand clothing to Generic Ativan Photo other Igbo traders who would then retail pieces of secondhand clothing.  In the Generic Ativan Photo case of Benin Republic, which borders Nigeria, most of their customers cross the Generic Ativan Photo border from Nigeria into Benin. Since the 1970s, the importation of secondhand clothing has Generic Ativan Photo been banned in Nigeria. Therefore, almost all the pieces of secondhand clothing one would find in Nigeria is Generic Ativan Photo smuggled from Benin.

Western cast-offs meet West African desires
A normal day of cloth shopping for Generic Ativan Photo many Lagos families involves a trip to the Yaba market, one of the Generic Ativan Photo numerous secondhand clothing markets in the city. Stalls made of wood and Generic Ativan Photo corrugated iron sheets house rows and bundles of secondhand clothing. Many of the Generic Ativan Photo items of clothing are carefully laundered and hung on racks; others are Generic Ativan Photo piled on the floor of the stalls. In front of the Generic Ativan Photo stalls stand young men and women, with pieces of secondhand clothing hangers in hand, calling on potential customers to Generic Ativan Photo come and patronize their wares. Nearby, in another section of the Generic Ativan Photo market, there are stalls where rucksacks, small purses and all sorts of bags are Generic Ativan Photo sold. In still another section, shoes of varying life stages are Generic Ativan Photo either paired up in neat rows or are stacked together. Like the Generic Ativan Photo clothing, the ones that are neatly set in rows are usually of better quality than Generic Ativan Photo the ones in stacks. In many cases, they are designer labels: this Generic Ativan Photo market is one place where one can pick up a Hugo Boss shirt – ‘original’, as one is often reminded by the vendors – for Generic Ativan Photo less than a fraction of what it would cost in a Generic Ativan Photo shop in a European city. But more often than not, they are Generic Ativan Photo simply imported Western cast-offs.

In most cases, the Generic Ativan Photo pieces of clothing found in the market in Lagos start their journey in the Generic Ativan Photo homes of European and American families. In Germany, items of clothing that Generic Ativan Photo are no longer wanted by their owners are packed into bags that Generic Ativan Photo are then deposited into roadside boxes. From there, they are taken to Generic Ativan Photo warehouses where they will be cleaned and sorted. Some of them are Generic Ativan Photo sold in the secondhand clothing shops that dot the streets of many German cities; but a Generic Ativan Photo large percentage are baled and exported to developing countries.

In Britain, the Generic Ativan Photo competition for its trade is fierce. Quite a number of charity organizations make a Generic Ativan Photo lot of their running cost from donations of secondhand clothing. Some rely on walk-ins – whereby donors of secondhand clothing take their pieces of clothing into a Generic Ativan Photo charity store. Needless to say, not all of the clothing that Generic Ativan Photo is taken into a charity shop is sold there. A large percentage end up being sold off to Generic Ativan Photo those who are described in the textile recycling industry as “commercial textile recyclers”. These are Generic Ativan Photo commercial organizations that collect, sort, bale and export secondhand clothing.

Some charities actually give franchise to “charity fundraisers”. These organizations collect secondhand clothing on behalf of charities, and Generic Ativan Photo pay the charities a certain percentage of the value of the Generic Ativan Photo collection. The most sophisticated charities make collections by themselves and Generic Ativan Photo have their own sorting and exporting firms. They sell some of their collections – usually a relatively small quantity – in their shops. The rest is Generic Ativan Photo sent to their processing factories, where the pieces of clothing are Generic Ativan Photo packed together and baled for exportation. Commercial textile recyclers, who buy clothing that Generic Ativan Photo charities that do not have their own sorting firms cannot sell in their shops, also make collections at areas where Generic Ativan Photo English municipalities designate as recycling areas. Bales of secondhand clothing are Generic Ativan Photo exported to East European, South Asian and African countries.

The international trade in secondhand clothing connects Western families with their counterparts in developing countries in an Generic Ativan Photo intricate web of desire and aspiration. Most of the time, on the Generic Ativan Photo part of the Westerner, this takes the form of the Generic Ativan Photo desire to help people who are less fortunate. Some assume that Generic Ativan Photo these less fortunate people are poor people in the country of the Generic Ativan Photo donors. Others assume that the less fortunate people are citizens in the Generic Ativan Photo developing world. Most people do not know that there is Generic Ativan Photo an active international trade in secondhand clothing. In my view, this Generic Ativan Photo is a more sustainable and fruitful relationship than one of pure donation, where Generic Ativan Photo the consumers simple receive the clothing for free.

As it Generic Ativan Photo is at the moment, there is a wide network of traders that Generic Ativan Photo is built around donated secondhand clothing. This network includes different actors, ranging from Generic Ativan Photo family-owned commercial textile recycling firms to small secondhand clothing importing companies, and Generic Ativan Photo extending to individually-owned secondhand clothing stalls. The industry provides a livelihood for Generic Ativan Photo them, one that would not exist if the clothing were given for Generic Ativan Photo free. Besides, it is definitely more dignified to purchase what one needs than Generic Ativan Photo to receive it as handout.

The clothing also satisfies the Generic Ativan Photo clothing desires of consumers. The reasons for this are not limited to Generic Ativan Photo affordability. To be sure, there are a lot of people who Generic Ativan Photo consume secondhand clothing because they cannot afford to buy new clothing. There are Generic Ativan Photo however others who go to shop for secondhand clothing because they believe that Generic Ativan Photo this is where they can find ‘original’ designers label. In a Generic Ativan Photo country like Nigeria, where most of the ready-made clothing is imported from Generic Ativan Photo China, a lot of what is available in the market are Generic Ativan Photo cheap Chinese knock-offs. Many people therefore prefer to buy designer labels from Generic Ativan Photo secondhand clothing shops because they can be sure that what they obtain there are Generic Ativan Photo original and good quality clothing. One could call them slaves of fashion, in search of authenticity – much like Americans and Generic Ativan Photo Europeans who go to secondhand clothing stores to buy vintage clothing.

[ii] Werner J. Cahnman, ‘Socio-Economic Causes of Antisemitism’, Social Problems, 5 (1957), 21-29.

[iii] Cheap Hydrocodone With Online Consult Todd M. Endelman, The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Generic Ativan Photo Change in a Liberal Society (University of Michigan Press, 1999).

[iv] Buy Hydrocodone Cough Suppressant Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi, Secondhand (Pepe) Documentary, 2007.

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Keith Hart, the Generic Ativan Photo economic anthropologist who, from his research with urban slum dwellers in 1960s Ghana, coined the Generic Ativan Photo term ‘informal economy’, announced his intention a couple of days ago to kick-start the writing of a book, Africa’s Urban Revolution, with a series of blog posts.

The first in the series appears today, and it is an excerpt of a review he wrote of Stephen Smith’s Négrologie: pourquoi l’Afrique meurt. The following two paragraphs are typical of his take on the book:

There is Generic Ativan Photo no systematic attempt to give an account of the role of the Generic Ativan Photo great powers in Africa – the Generic Ativan Photo USA, allied with South Africa and Museveni, France and Nigeria increasingly drawn together in opposition to Generic Ativan Photo these, China and Japan as aid donors. Britain’s remarkable eclipse as an influence is passed over. Smith’s aim is to show that Africa’s present has Generic Ativan Photo no future. Perhaps this is true of France and some of its former colonies; and Generic Ativan Photo Nigeria’s potential seems to Generic Ativan Photo be indefinitely on hold; but the other players are on a Generic Ativan Photo roll, with South African capital entertaining expansionist scenarios not seen since the Generic Ativan Photo days of Cecil Rhodes and Asian manufacturers tapping into Africa’s burgeoning market.

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Even more damaging to Generic Ativan Photo this emphasis on a moribund Africa is the astonishing rise of cities in 20th-century Africa. A region which had Generic Ativan Photo hardly any urban population in 1900 is now half urbanized. The reality of African societies today is Generic Ativan Photo a very young population living in cities with a lot of time on their hands. There has Generic Ativan Photo been a cultural revolution in the modern arts as a result of this Generic Ativan Photo development, although you would not read about it in this book or Generic Ativan Photo in most of the mainstream western media. Rather Africa is portrayed as the Generic Ativan Photo unchecked playground of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. This is Generic Ativan Photo systematic and some writers have pointed out the continuity with earlier attempts to Generic Ativan Photo advocate genocide on grounds of imperialism. “Exterminate all the brutes”, were the last words of Kurz’s report in Heart of Darkness. (Another of Smith’s books is Africa without Africans!) It is Generic Ativan Photo hard to miss an apparently unconscious wish today that Africans would die out, instead of merely performing their role as congenital inferiors in world society. Smith’s relationship to this claim is ambiguous.

I am Generic Ativan Photo pretty sure that the series of posts will be excellent, and Generic Ativan Photo you should definitely join the discussion. Even if for Generic Ativan Photo you, an interest in Africa is nothing more than just a Generic Ativan Photo smart career move.

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… is the title of a new book by Lucy Norris of the Department of Anthropology, University College, London.

The blurb:

In today’s globally connected marketplace, a Generic Ativan Photo wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman’s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris’s anthropological study of the Generic Ativan Photo recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are Generic Ativan Photo gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are Generic Ativan Photo used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a Generic Ativan Photo growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When old clothing is, for Generic Ativan Photo instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it Generic Ativan Photo may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and Generic Ativan Photo exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and Generic Ativan Photo markets as she tells the stories of the people who Generic Ativan Photo work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.

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By FT’s Gillian Tett:

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The cultural messages embedded in this Generic Ativan Photo shift are fascinating. If you are feeling optimistic, you might like to Generic Ativan Photo see the sushi invasion as a sign of globalisation – and America’s ability to Generic Ativan Photo act as a cultural melting pot. One of the most popular sushi dishes these days is Generic Ativan Photo the “California” sushi roll, which blends traditional rice with non-Japanese items such as avocado. In New York you Generic Ativan Photo can find “SushiSamba”, which mixes Latin American cuisine with that Generic Ativan Photo raw fish. But perhaps the most intriguing issue of all is Generic Ativan Photo the ethnicity of sushi restaurant staff. These days sushi restaurants often struggle to Generic Ativan Photo get “real” Japanese chefs, since there are Generic Ativan Photo not enough to meet the boom. So Chinese, Vietnamese or Filipino staff are Generic Ativan Photo used instead. The assumption, it seems, is that Asian faces are Generic Ativan Photo required to make the sushi restaurant look “real”; but many customers cannot really tell Chinese and Generic Ativan Photo Japanese apart. “Globalisation doesn’t necessarily homogenise cultural differences nor erase the Generic Ativan Photo salience of cultural labels. On the contrary, it grows the franchise,” observes Bestor. “The brand equity of sushi as Japanese cultural property adds to Generic Ativan Photo the cachet of the country and cuisine.” Even if the face is actually Chinese.

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By keith Hart. The conclusion:

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Money is Generic Ativan Photo a universal measure of value, but its specific form is not yet as universal as the Generic Ativan Photo method humanity has devised to measure time all round the world. It is Generic Ativan Photo a store of memory linking individuals to their various communities, a Generic Ativan Photo kind of memory bank and thus a source of identity…. Money links us imaginatively and Generic Ativan Photo practically to the widest reaches of society, while lending precision to Generic Ativan Photo the fulfillment of our most concrete desires and obligations. Money’s significance thus lies in the Generic Ativan Photo synthesis it promotes of impersonal abstraction and personal meaning, objectification and Generic Ativan Photo subjectivity, analytical reason and synthetic narrative.

One of anthropology’s objects might be Generic Ativan Photo to explore those features of humanity that are most conducive to Generic Ativan Photo the making of world society. If so, the substantial intellectual gains made by ethnography in the Generic Ativan Photo twentieth century must be married somehow to humanistic, historical and philosophical inquiries adequate to Generic Ativan Photo the task. The study of money offers one strategic focus for Generic Ativan Photo this, since money, more than most institutions, links each of us directly with the Generic Ativan Photo contemporary world as a whole.

It is fairly long, but every bit of it is worth your time.

Since I have Generic Ativan Photo a background in Development Studies, and I am currently trying to Generic Ativan Photo develop a research plan for an ethnographic study of the Nigerian financial sector, the Generic Ativan Photo following, from Bill Maurer Hydrocodone Prescription China, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine, resonates quite powerfully with me:

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In Maurer, B., 2005. Finance. In J. Carrier, ed. A Handbook of Economic Anthropology.  Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 179&180.

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No less a Generic Ativan Photo thinker than Adam Smith suggested that the division of labor in society was dependent upon the Generic Ativan Photo existence of markets, or, as he puts it, upon man’s “propensity to barter, truck and exchange one thing for another.” This phrase was later to Generic Ativan Photo yield the concept of the Economic Man. In retrospect it can Generic Ativan Photo be said that no misreading of the past ever proved more prophetic of the Generic Ativan Photo future. For while up to Adam Smith’s time that Generic Ativan Photo propensity had hardly shown up on a considerable scale in the Generic Ativan Photo life of any observed community, and had remained, at best, a Generic Ativan Photo subordinate feature of economic life, a hundred years later an industrial system was in full swing over the Generic Ativan Photo major part of the planet which, practically and theoretically, implied that Generic Ativan Photo the human race was swayed in all its economic activities, if not also in its political intellectual, and Generic Ativan Photo spiritual pursuits, by that one particular propensity. Herbert Spencer, in the Generic Ativan Photo second half of the nineteenth century, could without more than a Generic Ativan Photo cursory acquaintance with economics, equate the principle of the division of labor with barter and Generic Ativan Photo exchange, and another fifty years later, Ludwig von Mises and Walter Lippmann could repeat the Generic Ativan Photo same fallacy. By that time there was no need for argument. A host of writers on political economy, social history, political philosophy, and Generic Ativan Photo general sociology had followed in Smith’s wake and Generic Ativan Photo established his paradigm of the bartering savage as an axiom of their respective sciences. In point of fact, Adam Smith’s suggestions about the Generic Ativan Photo economic psychology of early man were as false as Rousseau’s were on the Generic Ativan Photo political psychology of the savage. Division of labor, a phenomenon as old as society, springs from Generic Ativan Photo differences inherent in the facts of sex, geography, and individual endowment; and Generic Ativan Photo the alleged propensity of man to barter, truck, and exchange is Generic Ativan Photo almost entirely apocryphal. While history and ethnography know of various kinds of economies, most of them comprising the Generic Ativan Photo institution of markets they know of no economy prior to our own, even approximately controlled and Generic Ativan Photo regulated by markets. This will become abundantly clear from a bird’s-eye view of the Generic Ativan Photo history of economic systems and of markets, presented separately. The role played by markets in the Generic Ativan Photo internal economy of the various countries it will appear, was insignificant up to Generic Ativan Photo recent times and the changeover to an economy dominated by the Generic Ativan Photo market pattern will stand out all the more clearly.

In The Great Transformation, pages 43&44.

Remember the Google and China issue? I recently came across part of the text of a keynote address delivered by Tricia Wang, ethnographer and Generic Ativan Photo PhD candidate in sociology at UC San Diego, at the New Direction in the Generic Ativan Photo Humanities Conference, UCLA. Her take on the China and Google saga is Generic Ativan Photo encapsulated in this excerpt:

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This is Generic Ativan Photo a model of social change that puts faith in objects, not in governance processes. Neo-informationalism and Generic Ativan Photo neo-liberalism work symbiotically to create what Wendy Brown calls the governed citizen who Generic Ativan Photo seeks solutions in products as opposed to the political process. While Wendy wasn’t speaking of technological objects per se, I make the Generic Ativan Photo case that this is indeed a variant of the hacker ethic; social change is Generic Ativan Photo made through direct programming of software code and interaction with technological devices while maintaining distance from Generic Ativan Photo the state.

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We should question any ethical system that Generic Ativan Photo reproduces a familiar trope of colonialism. Whereas past waves of imperialism used Religion, Science, or Generic Ativan Photo Globalization as a rhetoric of development, the new rhetoric of neo-informationalism is Generic Ativan Photo used as a guiding principle for entering new regions—ethical principles that Generic Ativan Photo can be used as proxies for pushing our belief system onto other people. As a Generic Ativan Photo result, the work can be less about free information and unlimited compassion and Generic Ativan Photo more about desires for free-access to new markets and new commodities.

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… is the title of a recently published book by Kate Meagher of LSE’s Department of International Development, my friend and Generic Ativan Photo fellow student of African trade networks and informal economy.

Nicolas van de Walle writes in Foreign Policy about the book:

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If we need anything now, it Generic Ativan Photo is more nuanced views of African political economy. That is what Generic Ativan Photo the book provides, in a very methodical way.

From a commentary on Owen Barder’s comment on Bob Zoellick’s speech on development discourse:

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You definitely should check out his blog. Reminds me of a book titled The Paternalism of Partnership, by Maria Eriksson Baaz.