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Herd reconstitution: the role of credit among Wodaabe herders in central Niger
Cambridge anthropology • 9 (2) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 30-42
By: White, Cynthia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the impact of the 1968-1973 drought on fourteen WoDaaBe herding households. Families were unable to maintain even the small nucleus of a herd necessary to reconstitute it. They were forced to sell dairy cows and young males in exchange for food, and to send household members to work in the city, reducing number of herders. The author suggests how credit programs might help herd recovery.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Borrowing and lending
- Buying and selling
- Exchange transactions
- Credit
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1980-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1973-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Niger
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cynthia White
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 84011005
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fula (African people)