Book
Cattle, women, and wells: managing household survival in the Sahel
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press • Oxford [england] • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Toulmin, Camilla.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses the economic and social life of Bambara farmers in a Sahelian village called Kala, in central Mali. The focus is on the effect of differential management practices relating to millet farming, animal husbandry and ownership of water wells on household economic status. The book provides detailed economic analysis of these linkages using qualitative and quantitative data on long-term benefits households obtain from investment of surplus in different farm assets including well-digging, capital (ploughs, oxen and breeding cattle) and labor (in the form of acquiring women, who would both work and reproduce households, through marriage).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Agricultural science
- Cereal agriculture
- Land use
- Real property
- Borrowing and lending
- Retail marketing
- Saving and investment
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Ownership and control of capital
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1980-1982, 1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1670-1988
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Camilla Toulmin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-288) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92000926
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)