Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba TribeLIT Verlag Münster, 1995 - 425 páginas This reprint of a study by Dr. Audrey Richards (1899-1984) describes the living conditions of the Bemba of North-Eastern Rhodesia, with special reference to the effects of migrant labour on the social and economic life of a mainly agricultural society. Although primarily concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of food, and with conditions of labour and standards of living, the book gives a vivid picture of the social structure of the Bemba - their political organisation and the functions of the chief, systems of land-tenure, kinship groupings, and the whole complex of economic, social, and magico-religious factors which arise in any community. The book has been widely recognised as an authoritative study particularly among economists and anthropologists. |
Índice
| 15 | |
| 34 | |
| 44 | |
EATING AND DRINKING | 67 |
GRANARY AND KITCHEN | 82 |
THE ROUTINE OF HOUSECRAFT | 100 |
DIET AND DOMESTIC ECONOMICS | 108 |
THE DOMESTIC UNIT | 124 |
BUDGETING WEALTH AND EXCHANGE | 201 |
THE PRODUCTION OF FOOD | 228 |
SOIL SELECTION | 277 |
METHODS OF CULTIVATION | 288 |
FISHING AND HUNTING | 329 |
ORGANIZING THE WORK | 351 |
LABOUR AND TIME | 381 |
APPENDIXES | 406 |
HOSPITALITY AND LABOUR PAYMENT | 135 |
DISTRIBUTION IN A TYPICAL VILLAGE | 154 |
OWNERSHIP BUDGETING AND EXCHANGE | 184 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe Audrey Isabel Richards Vista de fragmentos - 1951 |
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe Audrey Isabel Richards Vista de fragmentos - 1939 |
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe Audrey Isabel Richards Vista de fragmentos - 1961 |
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Página vi - A five-year plan of research', Africa, 5.1, 1932, p.2. 3 'A five-year plan of research', pl later. Meanwhile the Institute set in motion a broad programme of publication. The bias towards social change and development was intrinsic in the way the Institute was first conceived and then established in 1926. The original concern, of both missionaries and administrators, was with formulating and implementing new methods of education in Africa, with its emphasis in primary schools on the vernacular being...
Página 3 - Richards has pointed out that: It is an unfortunate fact that the diet of many primitive peoples has deteriorated in contact with white civilization rather than the reverse, and that in many parts of Africa the difficulty of the administrator is to ensure that the people live on as good a diet as formerly, let alone a better one.
Página 46 - It must be remembered that there is no other way of accumulating wealth in this area except by acquiring sufficient food to feed many followers. The giving or receipt of food is a part of most economic transactions, and may come to represent a number of human relationships whether between different kinsmen or between subject and chief. For this reason the whole question of handling or dividing food acquires tremendous emotional significance for the native, and discussions of personalities or legal...
Página v - new branch of anthropology'1 prior to their doing field work; the second in the 1950s, when further money for publications from Carnegie and research funding from Ford enabled a new series of publications and a second field research programme to get under way, this time under the overall direction of Daryll Forde at University College London. The new anthropology that Malinowski offered - 'practical anthropology...
Página 47 - In fact, there are very few types of food which he eats without porridge, except the various gourds and pumpkins on which he is forced to live when his grain is exhausted, or sweet potatoes — a fairly recent introduction — maize, honey, and fruits of the bush. All these may be eaten freely, but are simply not considered to make a meal. I have watched natives eating the roasted grain off four or five maize cobs under my very eyes, only to hear them shouting to their fellows later, 'Alas, we are...
Página 37 - ... food on the health of a people and the growth rate of their children has not yet been investigated, but from a sociological point of view there are other effects to be considered besides the lowering of energy due to actual under-feeding which the natives themselves recognize and describe. ... In a society in which people regularly expect to be hungry annually, and in which traditions and proverbs accustom them to expect such a period of privation, their whole attitude towards economic effort...