03697nam 2200601 450 991048009050332120170821194404.01-78238-271-2(CKB)3710000000103675(EBL)1375276(SSID)ssj0001184705(PQKBManifestationID)12521628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184705(PQKBWorkID)11196989(PQKB)11011531(MiAaPQ)EBC1375276(EXLCZ)99371000000010367520140414h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMorality and economic growth in rural West Africa a descriptive economics of the common people of Hausaland /Paul CloughNew York :Berghahn Books,2014.©20141 online resource (468 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-270-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 GrowthAppendix 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 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 subordiHausa (African people)Nigeria, NorthernEconomic conditions20th centuryHausa (African people)Social networksNigeria, NorthernEconomic developmentNigeria, NorthernSocial networksNigeria, NorthernNigeria, NorthernEconomic conditions20th centuryNigeria, NorthernSocial conditions20th centuryElectronic books.Hausa (African people)Economic conditionsHausa (African people)Social networksEconomic developmentSocial networks330.966976Clough Paul1948-992765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480090503321Morality and economic growth in rural West Africa2273267UNINA