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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Tillage
- Special crops
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Price and value
- Disasters
- Poverty
- Standard of living
- Classes
- Vegetable production
- Arboriculture
- Domesticated animals
- Retail marketing
- Buying and selling
- Congregations
- Childbirth
- Mortality
- Diet
- Labor supply and employment
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1806-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marbial, southern Haiti
- NotesAdditional notes
- report prepared by Alfred Métraux in collaboration with E. Berrouet and Dr. and Mrs. Jean Comhaire-Sylvain
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 52003311
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Marbial Valley (Haiti)--Social conditions