Book
Making a living in the Marbial Valley, Haiti
UNESCO • (10) • Published In 1951 • Pages: 220
By: Métraux, Alfred, Berrouet, Edouard, Comhaire-Sylvain, Suzanne, Comhaire-Sylvain, Jean.
Abstract
This document deals with the economic life of Haitian peasants in Marbial province as of the 1951. It shows that Haitian economy depends almost entirely upon the hard toil of rural people. When this report was compiled, rural communities lacked adequate communications, health services, agricultural organization and schools. The author observed a general pattern of rise in the cost of living and declining health conditions which led to the flight of starving and landless peasants to towns. Uprooted and unable to draw a living from the land, the author argued, these unfortunates would swell the urban proletariat and would probably become a formidable social danger.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1806-1951
- Coverage Place
- Marbial, southern Haiti
- Notes
- report prepared by Alfred Métraux in collaboration with E. Berrouet and Dr. and Mrs. Jean Comhaire-Sylvain
- LCCN
- 52003311
- LCSH
- Marbial Valley (Haiti)--Social conditions