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Autore |
Clough Paul <1948-> |
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Morality and economic growth in rural West Africa : a descriptive economics of the common people of Hausaland / / Paul Clough |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (468 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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, |
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Marmara, 1978 and 1979; Glossary of Key Hausa Words in the Text; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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