Book
Shifting cultivation in Africa: the Zande system of agriculture
Routledge &Paul • London • Published In 1956 • Pages:
By: Schlippe, Pierre de.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a thorough study of the Azande traditional system of agriculture in terms of its environmental and cultural limitations. The author, an agronomist, with years of field experience in Azandeland, offers detailed descriptions of the ecological setting, soil types, yearly weather cycle and the economic rhythm of Azande life, including the distribution of work and diet among age and sex classes. The first part of the book is confined to reporting the factual field study while the second part is devoted mainly to interpretation and practical suggestions for handling problems of culture change and administration in Azandeland. The author's major thesis is that traditional agriculture is not merely one aspect of Azande culture, but is, in fact, the main part if not synonymous with the total culture in its function of insuring the survival of the group (with its unique way of life) in its habitat. A lengthy 'notes' part at the end of the book includes detailed information on native agricultural practices and methods of storage and processing crops, as additional explanation to the numerous footnotes appearing throughout the text (see pp. 245-291).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Vegetable production
- Textile agriculture
- Land use
- Research and development
- Annual cycle
- General tools
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central 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.
- Technical Personnel
- 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
- Amal Vinogradov ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zande District of Equatoria Province, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Pierre de Schlippe
- The 'Zande Scheme' of economic development has been indexed for category 645
- As an aid to the researcher the end diagrams (figs. 16-24) and plates which appear at the end of the book, originally unpaginated, have been paginated by the HRAF as pp. 305-365. Frequent references in the text to these diagrams and plates make this additional pagination practical and necessary.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56027683
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)