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Garden money buys grain: food procurement patterns in a Malian village
Human ecology • 28 (2) • Published In 2000 • Pages: 219-250
By: Becker, Laurence C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study investigates food procurement patterns in a rural Maliam Community in West Africa. It shows that households in this village combine subsistence grain production with a variety of income generating activities including cattle herding, market gardening, wood selling, and remittance. Income from these activities is used for purchasing food and other necessities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Vegetable production
- Vegetable production
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Borrowing and lending
- Production and supply
- External trade
- Labor supply and employment
- Animal transport
- Standard of living
- Gender status
- Household
- Ethnic stratification
- Research and development
- Poverty
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bambara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1996, 1987, 2000
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1987-2000
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laurence C. Becker
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-250)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72623826
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)