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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818348203321

Autore

Clough Paul <1948->

Titolo

Morality and economic growth in rural West Africa : a descriptive economics of the common people of Hausaland / / Paul Clough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-271-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 p.)

Disciplina

330.966976

Soggetti

Hausa (African people) - Nigeria, Northern - Economic conditions - 20th century

Hausa (African people) - Social networks - Nigeria, Northern

Economic development - Nigeria, Northern

Social networks - Nigeria, Northern

Nigeria, Northern Economic conditions 20th century

Nigeria, Northern Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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 Noncapitalist Accumulation; Chapter 3 - Land Distribution and Land Transfers; Chapter 4 - Farm Labour; Chapter 5 - Credit Relations and Social Consumption; Chapter 6 - Interregional Produce Markets; Chapter 7 - Rural Produce Traders and Wealth Acquisition; Chapter 8 - Economic Change from 1985 to 1998; Chapter 9 - Continuity, Change - and Growth

Appendix 1 - Basic Information on Household Heads, Marmara, 1979Appendix 2 - Innovation, Agricultural Extension and Yields; Appendix 3 - All Landholding Household Heads Grouped by Labour Practices During the Weeding Operation in the Farming Season of 1978; Appendix 4 - Household Consumption of Food Grain and 'Soup Ingredients' (Cefane); Appendix 5 - Trading Purchases, Sales and Margins of M., 1978; Appendix 6 - Land Sales and Labour Use,



Marmara, 1978 and 1979; Glossary of Key Hausa Words in the Text; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 subordi