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Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger
Bad year economics : cultural responses to risk and uncertainty • Cambridge [england] • Published In 1989 • Pages: 81-86
By: Legge, Karen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of the impact of drought on Fulani pastoral practices discusses such traditional coping strategies as mobility, herd diversification and gathering wild resources, and considers how these practices were negatively affected during the colonial period by taxation, agricultural expansion and wage labor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Annual cycle
- Domesticated animals
- Pastoral activities
- Water supply
- Labor supply and employment
- Disasters
- 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
- 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
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central and southwestern Niger
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karen Legge
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88030004
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fula (African people)