essay
Trade and markets in the economy of the nomadic Fulani of Niger (Bororo)
Markets in Africa • (9) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 335-362
By: Dupire, Marguerite.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The nomadic people studied herein have a mostly closed pastoral economy, with only a few items produced to trade for outside goods. Cattle, the main source of capital, are primarily property of the lineage, and are exchanged at birth and marriage, both within and between lineages. Women sell milk to buy millet and men sell cattle to pay taxes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Dairying
- Property in movables
- Borrowing and lending
- Exchange transactions
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Mercantile business
- Wholesale marketing
- Retail marketing
- Routes
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fulani
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tahoua and Zinder regions, Niger
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Marguerite Dupire
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61012383
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fula (African people)