Fathers Work for Their Sons : Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community / Sara Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Sara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoruba (African people)--Economic conditions.

Yoruba (African people).

Yoruba (African people)--Social conditions.

Cocoa trade--Nigeria.

Cocoa trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1985.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Structural Change in the Political Economy of Western Nigeria

2. Migration and Community in Historical Perspective: Eripa and ìreé

3. Accumulation, Family, and Glass: The Uses of Agricultural Income in Two Cocoa-Farming Villages

4. The Disappearing Peasantry: Rural Trade and Politics in the 1970s

5. Schoolteachers: The Social and Economic Effects of Occupational Mobility

6. From Peasant to Artisan: Motor Mechanics in Ile-Ifè

7. Building the Oba's Palace: Community Development and Glass Formation in a Rural Town

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520320307

0520320301

OCLC:

1149470201