AUDREY RICHARDS, 1899–1984: AN APPRECIATION
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 84, Heft 334, S. 136-138
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 84, Heft 334, S. 136-138
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 269-270
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 447-478
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 81, Heft 322, S. 143-144
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 447-478
ISSN: 0022-0388
An interpretation is offered of abusa, a share-cropping arrangement that has been of fundamental importance in the development of the Ghanaian cocoa industry. According to theoretical expectations, such an arrangement is both ineffective & inequitable, a "premodern" or "precapitalist" productive relationship that will inevitably yield to a pattern of fixed rents & wage labor. Here, the role of abusa in the spectacular growth of the cocoa economy & in its recent decline is examined with reference to the development of individual contracts. It is argued that this "ontogenetic" development of abusa is structured by the changing domestic circumstances of farm owners & workers; their competing interests in a maturing cocoa farm are negotiated & expressed in a sequence of contractual arrangements that gives the worker increasing access to the land & the product of his labor. It is suggested that if the evolution of productive relations toward more evidently capitalist forms has been slow & uncertain, this is largely because social processes of the kind manifest in the individual abusa contract develop in what is effectively a contrary direction. 4 Figures, 1 Map, 76 References. Modified HA.
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 275-277
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 378-379
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 134-135
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 139-140
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In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 410
In: Community development journal, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 185-191
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In: Public Administration and Development, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 30-38
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 74, Heft 294, S. 51-59
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