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Household budgets and women's incomes
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 28While explaining proposed studies of aspects of "household economics" to prospective informants in two different African societies, I have been advised very quickly that "Among us, a man and his wife do not share the same purse, and that "Over here, we have a men's side and a women's side. This paper explores some of the problems of applying a "household" methodology to the
study of African rural economies. It focuses on one type of household study,
namely budget analysis, and suggests that the classic assumption of the household
as an undifferentiated decision-making unit applies poorly to many
African kinship systems. The first part of the paper is a brief discussion of
household methodology and its application to Africa. The second part is devoted
to an analysis of the relationship between men's and women's incomes in
the rural economy of the Beti of Southern Cameroun
The Provident Societies in the rural economy of Yaoundé, 1945-1960
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 3
The economic position of Beti widows, past and present
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 2
The raw, the cooked, and the half-baked: a note on the division of labor by sex
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 4
Women's work in the economy of the Cocoa belt: a comparison
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 7This paper is an empirical study of the cultural context and
historical development of the division of labor by sex in two
farming systems of the West African cocoa belt: the Yoruba of
Western Nigeria and the Beti of South-Central Cameroun. Both
societies are patrilineal. Both peoples inhabited the forest zone
before the period of colonial rule, so that their hoe-farming
systems had already adjusted to the forest environment before the
cocoa era. The two societies differ, however, in overall political
structure. The Yoruba had a centralised form of city-state government,
while the Beti were organised in small village communities
under autonomous headmen. The major difference which forms the
theme of this paper is the different division of labor by sex in
the indigenous economy. In a rough categorization of African farming
systems, according to which sex does most of the work, the
Yoruba would be classified as a male farming system, the Beti as
a female farming system. [TRUNCATED
Women's Farming and Present Ethnography: Thoughts on a Nigerian Re-Study
Explores women's farming among the Yoruba of Nigeria, based on the author's experience of ten years of empirical research on the topic; and relates it to conceptual questions within the field of anthropology
Head tax, social structure and rural incomes in Cameroun, 1922-1937
African Studies Center Working Paper No.
Anthropological models of African production: the naturalization problem
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 7
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