Hanoi market women talking
About this recording
- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- January 20, 2001
- Duration
- 1:03
- Location
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2001. Terms of use
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There was an outdoor market across from my hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam. Though it was not large, it was possible to find anything from combs to shoes to fresh meat and vegetables.
Merchants line up in long rows, selling their merchandise from a blanket on the ground or a table. The stalls are not divided, nor are they very large. Most of the merchants can sit and chat with each other while waiting for their next customer, like the women are doing in this recording.
Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. Generally, urban women are raised to be skilled merchants and their public role in small business is routine.
