The African HusbandmanLIT Verlag Münster, 2004 - 505 من الصفحات The African Husbandman helped a generation of scholars and officials to appreciate that Africans' agricultural practices were both more complex and more malleable than was often thought. Allan's work also pioneered research methods that wedded ethnographic and ecological fieldwork in ways that demonstrated the inextricable links between social arrangements, environmental conditions, and land use patterns. If certain facets of Allan's analysis have now come under scrutiny, his general tenet that to improve agricultural prospects in Africa one first has to understand it from the cultivators' point of view has only been strengthened with time. As long as there are individuals struggling to make sense of African agricultural productivity, The African Husbandman will remain a classic. |
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الصفحة vi - ... relevant texts, in English and the various vernaculars, were needed too. For this purpose the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures was set up with the linguist Dr Diedrich Westermann as the first Director. Hence, after the Journal, the Institute's very first publication, in 1931, was Thomas Mofolo's novel, Chaka, translated into English from Sotho. Subsequently an annual prize was awarded to the best work in a vernacular by an African (over 200 manuscripts were submitted...
الصفحة 38 - It would appear to be a reasonable — if not axiomatic — proposition that subsistence cultivators, dependent entirely or almost entirely on the produce of their gardens, tend to cultivate an area large enough to ensure the food supply in a season of poor yields. Otherwise the community would be exposed to frequent privation and grave risk of extermination or dispersal by famine, more especially in regions of uncertain and fluctuating rainfall.1 One would, therefore, expect the production of a...
الصفحة xvi - Speaking in a broad general way, all these races have similar faults regarded from the agricultural point of view. In particular, they may all be justly accused of what we may perhaps term in a general way indolence. However hard they may have to work upon their own properties to make a livelihood, the general principles upon which they act would seem to be — to do no work that can possibly be avoided, never to do to-day what can possibly be put off until to-morrow, and to do as their great grandfather...
الصفحة vi - We are of the oponion that no education which leads to the alienation of the child from his ancestral environment can be right, nor can it achieve the most important aim of education which consists in developing the powers and character of the child.
الصفحة 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...