Book
The Danagla traders of northern Sudan: rural capitalism and agricultural development
Ithaca Press • (10) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 105
By: Omer, El Haj Abdalla Bilal.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of social change prompted by development programs in a rural Sudanese village focuses on the gradual disintegration of extended households and localized kinship groups that, respectively, had been the basic economic and landholding units of traditional Danagla society. Beginning in the final decades of British colonial administration, the introduction of small, motorized pumps and publicly-funded irrigation projects attracted profit-seeking investors, including a network of relatively wealthy town-based traders and village shopkeepers. This led to increased commercialization of traditional subsistence agriculture, either through direct investment by lease-holding private enterprises or through the growth of finance and credit agencies enabling the purchase of water pumps and expanded cultivation of market crops.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Water supply
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Exchange and transfers
- Retail marketing
- Saving and investment
- Labor supply and employment
- Cooperative organization
- Ethnic stratification
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nubians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern 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.
- 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
- 1974-1975; 1976-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1898-1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Northern state, Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- El Haj Bilal Omer
- bibliographical references (p. 102-105)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85205478
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Danagla (African people)--Economic conditions
- Danagla (African people)--Social conditions
- Agriculture--Sudan--Dunqulah Region
- Dunqulah Region (Sudan)--Rural conditions