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The Konso economy of southern Ethiopia
Markets in Africa • (9) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 409-428, 739-753
By: Kluckhohn, Richard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes the role of Konso markets in integrating different spheres of the economy. While predominantly cereal farmers, the Konso pursue a range of subsidiary livelihood strategies including hunting, gathering, and craft production. The Konso economy includes several local and regional markets through which products and services are exchanged. These markets reinforced community solidarity through tighter collective control over land and labor while leaving the value of consumer products up to individual buyers and sellers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Buying and selling
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Property system
- Hunting and trapping
- Collecting
- Inter-community relations
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Ethnic stratification
- Price and value
- Labor supply and employment
- Age stratification
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Konso
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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 ; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Konso Special Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Richard Kluckhohn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 739-753)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61012383
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Konso (African people)