Ethnic domination of marketing channels is very common throughout the developing world. The phenomenon often has become closely associated with volatile political issues, such as unequal distribution of wealth or perceived foreign domination of the national economy. Ethnodomination arises when...

Oman's history is characterized by duality of marketing structures. The spatial structure of these two different economic systems can be analyzed with reports on economic activity in Oman from several decades either side of 1900. Coastal Oman has always been very trade oriented and thus open to...

The history of Oman is largely a story of competition, and often conflict, between two very different entities. This duality was even symbolized by the name of the country, “Sultanate of Muscat and Oman,” until 1970. The sultanate was formed from the fusion of the Batina coastal plain and...

Oman traditionally was characterized by a dichotomy between the economic systems of the coast and interior, evident in the spatial market structure and the role of markets in the urban settlements. Muscat was the point of attachment of the coastal system to the Indian Ocean trade network. The...