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Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure
African studies • 12 • Published In 1955 • Pages: 93-103
By: Lloyd, Peter Cutt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a discussion of traditional patterns of Yoruba land tenure and the related social and political obligations. The changes in the tenancy obligations which followed increased immigration and the introduction of cocoa as a commercial crop are related to the consequent decrease of unoccupied land available for expansion. Incidental to the discussion is considerable information on the agricultural economy, the kinship and political organization, and the status of immigrants in established communities. The author, at the time of publication, was Research Fellow in Anthropology in the West African Institute of Social and Economic Research of the University College of Ibadan, southern Nigeria.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Taxation and public income
- Tillage
- Labor supply and employment
- Mutual aid
- Clans
- Settlement patterns
- Community heads
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Renting and leasing
- Litigation
- Contracts
- Arboriculture
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yoruba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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.
- Social 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Peter C. Lloyd
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45015602
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)