ISBN:
9781782382713
Sprache:
Unbestimmte Sprache
Seiten:
468 p.
Ausgabe:
1st edition
Schlagwort(e):
General Anthropology
Kurzfassung:
The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of Maps, Tables, Charts and Figures -- Preface -- Maps -- -- Introduction: Methods of Fieldwork and Analysis -- -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Political Economy and Culture of Marmara Hamlet -- Chapter 2. The Cultural Logic of Non-Capitalist Accumulation -- Chapter 3. Land Distribution and Land Transfers -- Chapter 4. Farm Labouring Systems -- Chapter 5. Credit Relations and Social Consumption -- Chapter 6. Inter-regional Produce Markets -- Chapter 7. Rural Produce Traders and Wealth Acquisition -- Chapter 8. Economic Change from 1985 to 1998 -- Chapter 9. Change, Continuity – and Growth -- -- Appendix I: Basic Information on Household Heads, Marmara, 1979 -- Appendix II: Innovation, Agricultural Extension and Yields -- Appendix III: All Landholding Household Heads Grouped by Labour Practices During the Weeding Operation, 1978 -- Appendix IV: Household Consumption of Food Grain and Soup Ingredients` (Cefane) -- Appendix V: Trading Purchases, Sales and Margins of `M`, 1978 -- Appendix VI: Land Sales and Labour Use, Marmara, 1978 and 1979 -- -- Glossary of Key Hausa Words in the Text -- Bibliography --
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