Research Catalog

Title

Cattle, women, and wells : managing household survival in the Sahel / Camilla Toulmin.

Author

Toulmin, Camilla.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

xiii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Bambara (African people) > Agriculture
• Bambara (African people) > Domestic animals
• Bambara (African people) > Social conditions
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Mali > Kala
• Cattle > Economic aspects > Mali > Kala
• Human ecology > Mali > Kala
• Agriculture > Economic aspects
• Cattle > Economic aspects
• Economic history
• Human ecology
• Social conditions
• Bambara
• Landwirtschaft
• Tierhaltung
• Überlebensstrategie
• Waterbronnen
• Bambara (volk)
• Vee
• Huishoudingen
• Landbouw
• Vrouwenarbeid
• Antropologische aspecten
• Household production > Mali
• Tenure types, Traditional > Mali
• Economic conditions > Mali
• Social conditions > Mali
• Kala (Mali) > Economic conditions
• Kala (Mali) > Social conditions
• Mali > Kala
• Bambara

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[284]-288) and index.

Contents

1: Introduction -- Pt. I: The Village Setting. 2: Background to the Village of Kala. 3: Climate, Cultivation, and Household Income -- Pt. II: Farm Production. 4: The Farming System. 5: Millet-production Analysis. 6: Returns to Farming -- Pt. III: Farm Investment. 7: Introduction. 8: Well-digging. 9: Oxen Plough Teams. 10: Investment in Cattle-breeding Stock. 11: Farm-investment Strategies -- Pt. IV: Managing the Family. 12: Fertility and Child-rearing. 13: Marriage. 14: Bambara Household Organization -- Pt. V: Conclusions. 15: Conclusions -- Appendix: Levelling Mechanisms within Bambara Society.

ISBN

• 0198290063
• 9780198290063

LCCN

92000926

OCLC

• ocm25281486
• 25281486
• SCSB-1972766

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library