CAT 361 — Traditional Market Forms
BA Culture and Tourism · KNUST
This course is designed to assist students to know and understand the role periodic markets in particular play in traditional societies. The concept of traditional societies; the Trans-Sahara Trade; the central places geographical model; the Von Thunen concentric agricultural land-use theory; spatially interdependent societies vs. traditional/spatially restricted societies; bases for spatial interactions; aerial differentiation; traditional economic base studies; point sellers and linear markets; market locations and importance of markets; periodic markets/market days (airs); and case studies of the Asesewa, Techiman, Mankessim, Ada-Foah markets in Ghana.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- CAT 351 — Research Methods in Tourism I
- CAT 352 — Research Methods in Tourism II
- CAT 353 — Tourism and Development I
- CAT 354 — Tourism and Development II
- CAT 355 — Cultural Policies and Tourism Development
- CAT 356 — Tourism Plans and Policies
- CAT 357 — Tourism Entrepreneurship I
- CAT 358 — Tourism Entrepreneurship II
- CAT 359 — Health and Tourism
- CAT 360 — African Architecture
- CAT 362 — Traditional Foods
- CAT 363 — Indigenous Architecture
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