Book
Rainforest relations: gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone
Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London • Edinburgh • Published In 1994 • Pages: xix, 272
By: Leach, Melissa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses how Mende communities living around the Gola state forest reserves of eastern Sierra Leone view and use forest resources. The focus is on gender relations in the context of farming, gardening, lumbering, hunting, collecting and fishing in the forest area. It shows that ecological changes in the rainforest cannot be understood without concern for differences in women's and men's experiences in resource use.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Environmental quality
- Gender status
- Land use
- Forest products
- Research and development
- Cereal agriculture
- Lumbering
- Cereal agriculture
- Ethnobotany
- Hunting and trapping
- Division of labor by gender
- Ethos
- Settlement patterns
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mende
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1987-1988; 1990-1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Leone
- NotesAdditional notes
- Melissa Leach
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-260) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94067342
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mende (African people)--Social conditions/ Mende (African people)--Economic conditions/ Women, Mende--Social conditions/ Rain forest conservation--Sierra Leone/ Forest reserves--Sierra Leone/ Rain forest ecology--Sierra Leone/ Sex role--Sierra Leone/ Women in rural development--Sierra Leone/ Sierra Leone--Social conditions