Frazer in England worked mostly with materials collected by others – usually missionaries, traders, explorers, or colonial officials – earning them the moniker of " arm-chair anthropologists ".

In the secondary markets, existing securities are sold and bought among investors or traders, usually on a securities exchange, over-the-counter, or elsewhere.

Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, as far as the Rocky Mountains, they did not usually settle down.

However, when operating in a bank, where the amount the bank can lend ( and therefore get interest ) is linked to the value of its assets ( including accrued interest ), traders usually use daily compounding to discount cashflows.

While wholesalers of most products usually operate from independent premises, wholesale marketing for foodstuffs can take place at specific wholesale markets where all traders are congregated.

Traders usually do not include the handles when quoting prices because it is assumed that involved traders already know them.

They were usually traders, the middleman of the British and the Chinese, or the Chinese and Malays, or vice versa because they were mostly English educated.

Most local traders associations define common shopping hours for the region, usually:

These junks were usually three masted, and averaging between 200 and 800 tons in size, the largest ones having around 130 sailors, 130 traders and sometimes hundreds of passengers.

In addition, brokers usually allow bigger margins for day traders.

ECNs and exchanges are usually known to traders by a three-or four-letter designators, which identify the ECN or exchange on Level II stock screens.

Rebate traders seek to make money from these rebates and will usually maximize their returns by trading low priced, high volume stocks.

Though usually considered joke prizes, traders legally win the Zonks.

The captives were usually force-marched to these ports along the western coast of Africa, where they were held for sale to the European or American slave traders in the barracoons.

The Cherokee had long absorbed the mixed-race children of Cherokee mothers and white fathers ( usually fur traders ).

The fur traders, men of social and financial standing, usually went to North America as young single men and used marriages as the currency of diplomatic ties, marriages and relationships between Europeans and First Nations / Native Americans became common.

The Sweetwater River valley provided a route used by fur trappers, mountain men and fur traders as they went to their annual summertime Rocky Mountain Rendezvouss located usually somewhere along the Green River Wyoming.

The stepped bases of these monuments were used by early traders on market day to display their goods: usually milk, cheeses and, of course, butter.

As the Buddhist ideology encouraged identification with trade, monastic complexes became stopovers for inland traders and provided lodging houses that were usually located near trade routes.

The grindylow of The Gengris willingly trade with outsiders, handsomely rewarding traders for such oddities as barrels full of equal parts salt and glass beads, but frequently eliminate outsiders who have " transgressed " in some way ; the nature of these transgressions are usually opaque to all but the grindylow themselves, and such trade is extremely risky for outsiders.

British and other Europeans also settled there, usually as traders or professionals.

Test drives are also usually allowed by vehicle traders or manufacturers to enable prospective customers to determine the suitability of the vehicle to their driving style.

"; Ken and Eddie Kennedy, the Barbers whose insanitary salon would usually be visited by the programme's star guest each week ; World Of The Strange, two cloaked characters who believed that everything-even the most banal, everyday occurrences-was due to mysterious supernatural forces ; and the Sister Brothers, market traders of questionable character who would introduce a competition each week.

Lab-asiros ( fish traders ) have usually experienced difficulty in transporting the tuna to Curvada due to the sticky mud in going to Tukuran proper.

Aleut carvings are distinct in each region and have attracted traders for centuries.

The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

Often, domestic legislation is either non-existent ( especially in Parties that have not ratified it ), or with penalties incommensurate with the gravity of the crime and insufficient deterrents to wildlife traders.

At first the traders may have genuinely operated as labour recruiters, but they quickly turned to subterfuge and outright kidnapping to round up their human cargo.

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

Because the fur trade was a very dynamic market, the governors of the HBC needed to have some form of flexibility when dealing with prices and traders.

As hedge funds are good customers of investment banks they have an advantage in being able to obtain information from stock analysts, or even stock traders, at investment banks.

As on other Line Islands there might have been a small or temporary native population, most probably Polynesian traders and settlers, who would have found the island a useful replenishing station on the long voyages from the Society Islands to Hawaiʻi, perhaps as early as AD 400.

* Mali Market Information Study FOOD SECURITY II COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT between U. S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT and MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: IN-COUNTRY TIME PERIOD: JULY 1987-DECEMBER 1994. statistical evidence is consistent with anecdotal reports from both farmers and traders that the SIM radio broadcasts have fundamentally changed bargaining relationships between traders and farmers, forcing traders to offer more competitive prices in isolated rural markets.

* Adam Smith: Often said to have founded modern economics ; explained emergence of economic benefits from the self-interested behavior (" the invisible hand ") of artisans and traders.

During this war, Rome and Syracuse both aided Carthage, although traders from Italy seem to have done business with the insurgents.

This has led to great speculation, with historical evidence, that it is possible that Malian sailors may have reached the coast of Pre-Columbian America under the rule of Abubakari II, nearly two hundred years before Christopher Columbus and that black traders may have been in the Americas before Columbus.

With the advantage of being located near the Arabian Peninsula, Somali traders have increasingly begun to challenge Australia's traditional dominance over the Persian Gulf Arab livestock and meat market, offering quality animals at very low prices.

Jefferson increasingly believed the problem was the traders and merchants who showed their lack of " republican virtue " by not complying and maintained until his death that had the embargo been lawfully observed by all US citizens it would have avoided war which after its repeal, three days before his term ended, soon followed in 1812.

The Adaduanan cycle appears to be based on an older six-day week, still extant in some northern Guan communities such as the Nchumuru, on which is superimposed a seven-day week which may have been brought south with itinerant traders from the Savannah.

The project is underway in 20 of the 21 planned countries and, since the launch, more than 116, 000 farmers, warehouse operators and small & medium traders have received training from WFP and partners in improved agricultural production, post-harvest handling, quality assurance, group marketing, agricultural finance and contracting with WFP.

As these ' horns ' were considered to have magic powers, Vikings and other northern traders were able to sell them for many times their weight in gold.

Historians have widely debated the nature of the relationship between these African kingdoms and the European traders.

They began to have contact with European traders in the 18th century.