TY - BOOK AU - Belasco,Bernard I. TI - The entrepreneur as culture hero: preadaptations in Nigerian economic development SN - 0030520969 AV - DT513 .B4 U1 - 330.9'669 PY - 1980/// CY - New York PB - Praeger KW - Yoruba (African people) KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Nigeria N1 - "A J. F. Bergin Publishers book."; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 207-219 N2 - This volume is a case study in ethnomarketing, an account of how the Yoruba of Nigeria adjusted to and transformed themselves in relation to penetration by the world market. It documents the range of Yoruba cultural inventiveness in response to new commodity relations, the “crux of Westernization,” that followed upon the opening of Atlantic commerce. The emphasis, thus, is on changes and continuities in production and consumption arrangements, including ideological processes, stemming from Yoruba participation in overseas commerce ER -