Book
Rural Hausa: a village and setting
University Press • Cambridge, England • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Hill, Polly.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Using the theme of 'economic inequality' Hill analyzes '…the socio-economic affairs of a single village in Nigerian Hausaland.' (p. xi) The theme takes the form of an analytic framework in which Hill divides the population into economic groups, numbered 1-4, from rich to poor respectively. The economic groups have been indexed for 556. All of the data are analyzed in terms of this framework. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of 14 chapters which explore the theme of economic inequality in terms of the GANDU type of household organization, the extent of land holdings per farming unit, the means of acquisition and relinquishment of land, production, ownership of such things as granaries and domestic animals, the incidence and reasons for migration, and the prevalence of wage employment, whether for farming or craftwork.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Internal trade
- Mutual aid
- Accumulation of wealth
- Classes
- Family
- Household
- Family relationships
- Community structure
- 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.
- Economist
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; Martin Malone ; 1974-1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967
- 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)
- Village of Batagarawa in the vicinity of Katsina near the border of Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Polly Hill
- 556 - references to the analytic framework devised by the author which divides the population into economic groups 1-4, from rich to poor, respectively
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-349) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75161287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hausa (African people)