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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria -- Theory and Practice: a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Afrika Spectrum • 14 (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 295-315
By: Kohnert, Dirk.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Operating under the hypothesis held by a number of social scientists that in West Africa in general, and Nigeria in particular, peasant societies are essentially class-less in structure, Kohnert attempts to demonstrate in this article that after a critical examination of the theoretical foundations of their positions that ideas of a class-less peasantry in Nigeria are based not so much on reality but instead on an inadequate interpretation of the historical-materialistic class-concept. According to the author, with the increasing number of agro-economic surveys in Nigeria the problem of socio-economic research shifts from a common lack of data to a lack of adequate concepts to analyze the available information.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Classes
- Ownership and control of capital
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Status, role, and prestige
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nupe
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dirk Kohnert
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72491537
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Africa--Periodicals
- Nupe (African people)