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Economic spheres in pre-colonial Ila society
African social research • 28 • Published In 1979 • Pages: 617-641
By: Fielder, Robin J..
Abstract
The author demonstrates the versatility of cattle as mediums of exchange in this analysis grounded in the key factors of production needed by individuals establishing households and aspiring to improve their social standing. Any ambitious Ila needs cattle for marrying a wife, feeding the household, earning social respect, appeasing dead ancestors and spirits, etc. Cattle also can be loaned to relatives and friends for anticipated material and social gains.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2015
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Southern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2014
- Field Date
- not specified
- Coverage Date
- 1916-1979
- Coverage Place
- Namwala and Itezhi-Tezhi districts, Southern Province, Zambia
- Notes
- by Robin J. Fielder
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 641)
- LCCN
- 72013521
- LCSH
- Ila (African people)