Land, Labour and Entrustment

West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18232-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

Diverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development.

Zielgruppe

This book would be of interest to development policymakers and practitioners, academics and students in Development studies, Anthropology, African Studies and Gender Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kea, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Kea, Pamela
Pamela J. Kea, Ph.D. (2001) in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is a lecturer in the department of Anthropology, University of Sussex. She has published articles on gender, agrarian relations and education in The Gambia.