Book
Production, trade and power: the political economy of central Angola
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Heywood, Linda Marinda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Heywood's doctoral dissertation shows how the Ovimbundu were able to maintain economic independence through most of Angola's early colonial period. Because of their large population and manpower the Ovimbundu dominated long-distance trade between Central Africa and the Coast, providing porters for the caravans that carried goods into and out of the region. Ovimbundu chiefs controlled the trade through their control of free and slave labor. After the 1840s, trade shifted from slaves and ivory to a variety of household-produced commodities, including rubber and corn. Porters began to engage in trading, too. The growth in trade and traders weakened the power of the nobles and made the kingdoms more vulnerable to attack. The Portuguese invasion in1890, marked the beginning of Ovimbundu subjugation, which finally came in the 1920s along with the completion of the Benguela railroad across the highlands.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External trade
- Burden carrying
- Travel
- Slavery
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Warfare
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ovimbundu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern 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.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Angola
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Linda Marinda Heywood
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Columbia University, 1984
- UM8427410
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-505)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mbundu (African people)