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Some aspects of institutionalized exchange: a Kanuri example
Cahiers d'etudes Africaines • 5 • Published In 1965 • Pages: 353-369
By: Cohen, Ronald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical account of the Kanuri economy. The nineteenth- century Kanuri economy was a peripheral market economy in which there was no universal form of currency and only some goods and services entered into the marketplace, for example agricultural surpluses and craft work. Other types of exchanges were embedded in the sociopolitical structure of society. Higher status persons received gifts, services and tributes from subordinates and redistributed them in a show of generosity during rites of passage ceremonies. The legitimate route for social mobility was for any individual to enter into a patron-client relationship with the head of a more powerful and wealthier household. An important ingredient of this relationship was BERZUM, discipline and trust. Cohen suggests that BERZUM could be considered the currency of the Kanuri political economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Medium of exchange
- Social relationships and groups
- Ethics
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kanuri
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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 ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1955-57
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Borno State, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ronald Cohen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn86012778
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kanuri (African people)