@article{e7ad8f98e0394fe89f95e460858b3ea7,
title = "Development of the Grain Market and Merchants in Burkina Faso",
author = "Mahir Saul",
note = "Funding Information: * Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This article is based on research undertaken in western Burkina Faso between June 1983 and August 1984 with the support of the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of Illinois Research Board. Most of my biographical information comes from a set of 35 interviews with merchants and farmers in December 1984 and January 1985 while working as a consultant for the University of Michigan/University of Wisconsin Cereals Marketing Project. My initial acquaintance with Upper Volta (as the country was called until 1984) was as a member of the team cf Purdue University West Africa Projects from May 1978 to August 1 Jane I. Guyer, 'The Food Economy and French Colonial Rule in Central Cameroon', in The Journal of African History (Cambridge), 19, 4, 1978, pp. 5 7 7—97. 2 Richard Roberts, 'The Emergence of a Grain Market in Bamako, 1883-1908', in Canadian Journal of African Studies (Ottawa), 14, 1, 1980, pp. 37-54. 3 Claude Meillassoux, 'A Class Analysis of the Bureaucratic Process in Mali', in The Journal of Development Studies (London), 6, 1970, pp. 97-110.",
year = "1986",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1017/S0022278X00006777",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
pages = "127--153",
journal = "The Journal of Modern African Studies",
issn = "0022-278X",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "1",
}