Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausalund (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared

by Polly Hill

Book Overview

Anthropologists and economists have made persistent efforts to identify economic features of rural tropical economies in the simplest possible terms, in order to enhance their universality. This has resulted in the creation of doctrine on such matters as the causes of rural economic inequality and abysmal poverty. The doctrine is far too generalised to have any practical utility; it is ahistorical; and it usually involves the false belief that all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521271029
• ISBN13: 9780521271028
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"