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Building the homestead : agriculture, labour and beer in South Africa's Transkei / Patrick McAllister.
- Title
- Building the homestead : agriculture, labour and beer in South Africa's Transkei / Patrick McAllister.
- Author
- McAllister, P. A.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England : Ashgate, c2001.
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- Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Description
- xi, 199 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- African Studies Centre research series ; 16/2001
- Uniform Title
- African Studies Centre research series 16.
- Subject
- Agricultural development projects > Transkei
- Agriculture, Cooperative > Transkei
- Xhosa (African people) > Transkei > Social conditions
- Beer > Transkei
- Drinking behavior > Transkei
- Xhosa (African people) > Social conditions. > Transkei
- Transkei (South Africa) > Social life and customs
- Transkei (South Africa) > Rural conditions
- Transkei (South Africa) > Economic conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-199).
- Contents
- Fieldwork in Shixini 1 -- Building the homestead 6 -- Agrarian development in South Africa's communal areas 12 -- 2. Shixini and Its People 15 -- Historical and administrative background 15 -- Physical characteristics and settlement 20 -- Ecology and demography 24 -- Making a living 32 -- Migrant labour 36 -- 3. Subsistence Agriculture, or 'Scratching about in the Soil'? 40 -- Land and livestock 40 -- An agricultural ethos 45 -- Maize yields: What is a 'harvest'? What is 'maize'? 58 -- Implications for rural development 71 -- 4. Co-Operative Labour in Africa: an Overview 88 -- Exchange labour and festive labour 90 -- Efficiency and uses 93 -- Who works for whom, and why? 97 -- Work parties and rural differentiation 100 -- Reciprocity 102 -- 5. Work Parties and the Transformation of Rural Production 111 -- Historical context: changing rural production 116 -- Development of beer drinks 122 -- Kinship and neighbourhood organization 124 -- Organisation of agricultural labour 125 -- Agricultural companies and work groups 136 -- Umgqibelo and other labour combinations 143 -- 6. Drinking and Working 148 -- Occasions for beer 148 -- Rules of beer drinking 152 -- Work party beer 159 -- 7. Beer, Labour and the Homestead 177.
- ISBN
- 0754618455 (pbk.)
- 9780754618454 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 47192345
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library