Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introductory Chapter: The Need to Engage in the Field Experience
- I Background Material: The Two Regions and the Eight Localities
- II A Dry Grain Agrarian Mode
- III The Village Farmland
- IV The Farming Household: (1) Joint Households
- V The Farming Household: (2) Miscellaneous Aspects
- VI The Essence of Inequality: Land Ownership
- VII The Diversity of Economic Activity
- VIII Intensification
- IX Upward and Downward Mobility
- X Migration
- XI Rural/Urban Relationships
- XII The Withdrawal from the Countryside
- XIII Agrestic Servitude
- XIV The Inevitable Dissolution of the Large Estates
- XV How did the Weakest Elements formerly Survive in the Anekal Villages?
- XVI The Lack of an Agrarian Hierarchy in Pre-colonial West Africa
- XVII A Dry Grain Mode: Some Conclusions
- List of references
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Introductory Chapter: The Need to Engage in the Field Experience
- I Background Material: The Two Regions and the Eight Localities
- II A Dry Grain Agrarian Mode
- III The Village Farmland
- IV The Farming Household: (1) Joint Households
- V The Farming Household: (2) Miscellaneous Aspects
- VI The Essence of Inequality: Land Ownership
- VII The Diversity of Economic Activity
- VIII Intensification
- IX Upward and Downward Mobility
- X Migration
- XI Rural/Urban Relationships
- XII The Withdrawal from the Countryside
- XIII Agrestic Servitude
- XIV The Inevitable Dissolution of the Large Estates
- XV How did the Weakest Elements formerly Survive in the Anekal Villages?
- XVI The Lack of an Agrarian Hierarchy in Pre-colonial West Africa
- XVII A Dry Grain Mode: Some Conclusions
- List of references
- Index
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- Dry Grain Farming FamiliesHausalund (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982