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Land, labour and entrustment : West African female farmers and the politics of difference /

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 The Gambia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kea, Pamela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:African social studies series ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Processes of agrarian transformation: strange farmers, groundnuts and the search for new modes of accumulation
  • Narratives of the founding of Brikama: hosts and the affirmation of social identities
  • The practice of daily life: greetings and the social relations of agrarian production
  • Hosts and the acquisition of land
  • Female agrarian clientelist relations and entrustment
  • The changing relations of agrarian production and the politics of difference.