ISBN:
978-90-04-18232-5
ISSN:
1568-1203
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 218 Seiten
,
Karte
Series Statement:
African Social Studies Series 21
Keywords:
Gambia Landwirtschaft
;
Reform
;
Agrarreform
;
Landreform
;
Landrecht
;
Frau
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Chronology of political events -- 1. Introduction -- Part One. Historical and contemporary narratives -- 2. Processes of agrarian transformation: strange farmers, groundnuts and the search for new modes of accumulation -- 3. Narratives of the founding of Brikama: hosts and the affirmation of social identities -- Part Two. Accessing land and labour: entrustment and agrarian clientelist relations -- 4. The practice of daily life: greetings and the social relations of agrarian production -- 5. Hosts and the acquisition of land -- 6. Female agrarian clientelist relations and entrustment -- Part Three. The politics of difference -- 7. The changing relations of agrarian production and the politics of difference -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [205]-216; "my Ph.D. thesis, upon which this book is based" (Acknowledgements)
,
Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 2001, entitled: The politics of difference: female farmers and clientelist relations in a changing Gambian community.
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