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Why Mende became tree croppers
Research in economic anthropology • 19 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 267-288
By: Isaac, Barry L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article explains why the Mende who used to rely on growing rice for their subsistence became growers of tree-crops such as cocoa, coffee and palms. It argues that this change was mostly male labor shortages at the household and community level as young preferred to migrate to urban centers in search of employment opportunities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Special crops
- Labor supply and employment
- Division of labor by gender
- Environmental quality
- Land use
- Household
- Extended families
- Buying and selling
- External trade
- Diet
- Community structure
- Sociocultural trends
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Leone
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barry L. Isaac
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 287-
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79640245
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mende (African people)