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Land use at Soba, Zaria Province, northern Nigeria
Economic geography • 33 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 72-86
By: Prothero, R. Mansell.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the types of land and their varied economic uses, chiefly agricultural, in and about the town of Soba. Prothero includes considerable incidental information on agricultural crops, practices, and markets not elsewhere available. Several maps give detailed information on the immediate region. Prothero, formerly of University College, Ibadan, was with the Department of Geography at the University of Liverpool at the time of publication.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Land use
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1952
- 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)
- Soba, Zaria Province, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. Mansell Prothero
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)