essay
Economic spheres in Darfur
Themes in economic anthropology • • Published In 1967 • Pages: 149-174
By: Barth, Fredrik.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study describes salient features of traditional subsistence and exchange among Fur farmers living in dense villages on the slopes of the Jebel Marra. Using the concept of “economic spheres,” the author provides generalizations about determinants of market values and the cultural desirability of certain assets (e.g. land, cash, labor) and agricultural products (e.g. grain, fruits and vegetables). Fur farmers are found to be not just rational profit-seeking individuals but also culturally-bound actors who must distinguish what is morally permissible. Examples of this concern with morality include communal norms restricting the availability of agricultural and domestic labor, and of local beer in the cash economy sphere.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Special crops
- Exchange transactions
- Medium of exchange
- Buying and selling
- Internal trade
- Real property
- Labor supply and employment
- Alcoholic beverages
- Mutual aid
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- Family relationships
- Ethics
- Individual enterprise
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Saving and investment
- Price and value
- Retail marketing
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fur
- 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; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jebel Marra massif, Central and North Darfur states, Darfur region, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Fredrik Barth
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 68098218
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Darfur (Sudan)