Book
The economy of Hausa communities of Zaria
H. M. Stationery Off. for the Colonial Office • (16) • Published In 1955 • Pages: viii, 273
By: Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield), Great Britian, Colonial Social Science Research Council.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph concerning the Hausa of Zaria Province in Nigeria, is a pioneering study of the Hausa. The monograph is cast within the framework of British social anthropology, which is to say a strictly functionalist approach. Hence, the various sectors of the culture, including the social structure or local communities, the system of rank and authority and the outline of the modern economy, are carefully and painstakingly shown to exist in a balanced relationship to one another. In addition to this overall interrelatedness, Smith deals exhaustively with the organization of household and community groupings, the kinship system, the basis of political activity and political ranking, and with an analysis of individual and community budgets and the change in economic activity under the so-called indirect rule policy of the British administration. An extensive series of appendices summarizes a wide array of data on these various activities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Production and supply
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hausa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zaria Province, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- By M. G. Smith Ph.D.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-260)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 55003545
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)