Polly Hill
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611548 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Polly Hill |
| NOMBRES | Polly |
| APELLIDO | Hill |
| FIRMA | HILL P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 555 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1940 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Two types of West African house trade
This chapter presents some evidence for the idea that in rural Katsina Emirate generally market-places might serve a rather unimportant function as arenas where foodstuffs, especially grain, are retailed to the final consumer. A grid of triangles was drawn on the map and the numbers of population dots and markets were counted for each triangle. Owing to the necessary rejection of boundary-crossing triangles and to very low densities throughout th…
Dry Grain Farming Families
The migrant cocoa-farmers of southern Ghana
Five Women of Sennar
Journal Article Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan Get access Five Women of Sennar: Culture and Change in Central Sudan, by Susan M. Kenyon. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. vii + 262 pp. £35. ISBN 0 19 827832 2. POLLY HILL POLLY HILL Huntingdon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 364, July 1992, Pages 490–491, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.…
Market Places
It is usual to follow the Final Report of the British Royal Commission on Market Rights and Tolls (1891) by defining a market place as an 'authorized public concourse of buyers and sellers of commodities, meeting at a place more or less strictly limited or defined, at an appointed time', and to regard fairs, which meet far less frequently (commonly annually for a number of days in succession), as different types of assembly. While this definition…
Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon . Jane I. Guyer
Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa
Development Economics on Trial
Development Economics on Trial
Polly Hill's provocative book examines the disastrous gulf that separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first, polemical part of her book, how unreliable and western-biased assumptions most development economists base their theoretical work. She shows in part…
Kerala is Different
While it is very well known that the small Indian state of Kerala has many extraordinary anthropological, demographic, ecological, economic, educational, historical, political, religious, etc. features (which are reflected in a vast and to some extent learned literature), so that it is quite unlike what Stokes denotes as 'the great agricultural plains areas, which for centuries before the British had experienced large-scale political organization…
The Gullibility of Development Economists
Abramov, Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish State, Rutherford etc.: Associated University Presses 1976. There is substantive supportive literature on both sides of the somewhat polemical debate over whether there is religious liberty for Jews in Israel. 13. The subject was discussed a few years ago in the pages of RAIN (44, June 1981, by Myron Aronoff, and also, more briefly, in 47, December 1981, by Jonathan Webber); for the first …
Karl Marx Collective
The Poor Quality of Official Socio-Economic Statistics Relating to the Rural Tropical World
My main concern in this article is with statistics relating to such basic matters as the sizes of farm-holdings, the output and yield of crops, household income and expenditure, occupational statistics, cattle ownership, the sizes of villages, etc.-though I shall also range more widely. While the distinct and professional field of demographic statistics is necessarily outside my scope, I shall criticize some features of the Karnataka population c…
Dry Grain Farming Families
Dry Grain Farming Families
Dry Grain Farming Families
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 al…
Cattle Husbandry in Nigeria
Peasants and Poverty
Journal Article Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti Get access Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti. By Mats Lundahl. (London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 699. £19.95. ISBN 0 85664 602 4.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Clare Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 358, 1 June 1980, Pages 431–433, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231822 Published: 01 June 1980
Joint Families in Rural Karnataka, South India
The main purpose of this brief article on the importance of the joint family in six villages in Anekal Taluk, Bangalore District, Karnataka State, is to recommend a simple statistical method of measuring the 'incidence of jointness' among the resident population; it also presents the results of my enquiry
Population, Prosperity, and Poverty
1. The economic relationship between city and countryside in 1900 2. Indirect rule as rural non-rule 3. The Kano Close Settled Zone 4. A brief introduction to Dorayi 5. The consequences of persistent population pressure: a summary 6. The evidence for economic inequality 7. The attitude to farmland 8. The married son 9. The failure to migrate 10. The rich men 11. Extreme poverty 12. The big house 13. From slavery to freedom: farm-slavery in Dorayi…
Population, Prosperity and Poverty. Rural Kano 1900 and 1970
Comparative Agrarian Relations in Karnataka (South India) and Hausaland (Northern Nigeria)
Population, Prosperity and Poverty
Rural Hausa
Population, Prosperity and Poverty
The migrant cocoa-farmers of southern Ghana
The Migrant Cocoa Farmers of Southern Ghana
Opening ParagraphThe development of commercial cocoa growing in Ghana is always assumed to be something of a miracle. It evokes the stereotype of the plodding subsistence farmer, eking out a living by a system of shifting cultivation in the forest. This peasant is correctly presumed to have been unfamiliar with the cash economy centred on palm produce for export and deriving mainly from areas south-east of the forest zone, but he is somehow suppo…
Rural Hausa
This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa. At the time of publication there were perhaps as many as 15 million Hausa-speaking people in the area, most of whom lived in the countryside in northern Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger Republic. This book is at once an examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and a study of the way of life of the rural Hausa generally. The…
Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa.
Landlords and Brokers
Hill Polly. Landlords and Brokers: A West African Trading System (With a Note on Kumasi Butchers). In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 6, n°23, 1966. pp. 349-366
Hidden Trade in Hausaland
There have been few attempts to study the functions of rural West African market-places in relation to the socio-economic life of the communities they serve,I and many of the questions which require propounding receive an implicit answer. Thus it is conventionally supposed that where cash percolates into every crevice of the economy, as it does in the Hausa village in northern Nigeria to which this article relates, most cash transactions involvin…
Population, Prosperity, and Poverty
1. The economic relationship between city and countryside in 1900 2. Indirect rule as rural non-rule 3. The Kano Close Settled Zone 4. A brief introduction to Dorayi 5. The consequences of persistent population pressure: a summary 6. The evidence for economic inequality 7. The attitude to farmland 8. The married son 9. The failure to migrate 10. The rich men 11. Extreme poverty 12. The big house 13. From slavery to freedom: farm-slavery in Dorayi…
Notes on Traditional Market Authority and Market Periodicity in West Africa
These notes on traditional market authority and market periodicity in West Africa are intended to draw attention to the neglect of a fascinating historico-anthropological field. Given the lack of any satisfactory typology of West African markets, generalizations about all types of market must be avoided—and certain erroneous assumptions relating to the traditional relationship of chief and market are called in question. Nor should it be assumed t…
Population, Prosperity and Poverty
From Slavery to Freedom
When the British arrived in Northern Nigeria in the early years of the century, one of their first acts was a Proclamation on Slavery (1901) which prohibited slave-raiding, abolished the legal status of slavery and declared that all those subsequently born of slave parents would be free, but which did not prohibit slaveholding as such. Faced with the existence of ancient and flourishing slavery systems, which probably involved several million men…
The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer
Journal Article The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer Get access The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer. By Polly Hill. (London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. 140. 16s.) K. D. S. Baldwin K. D. S. Baldwin Kaduna, Nigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 68, Issue 270, 1 June 1958, Pages 387–389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227618 Published: 01 June 1958
Subsistence to Commercial Farming in Present-day Buganda
Journal Article Audrey I. Richards, Ford Sturrock and Jean M. Fortt. Subsistence to Commercial Farming in Present-day Buganda Get access Subsistence to Commercial Farming in Present-day Buganda. An economic and anthropological survey. Edited by Audrey I. Richards, Ford Sturrock and Jean M. Fortt. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. x + 336. £7.60.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Clare Hall, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on…
A Plea for Indigenous Economics
Markets in Africa
Economists in Africa hold a narrow view of their scope. Traditionally they have been almost entirely concerned with the economic relationship between Africa and the West, with the import and export trade: the colonial situation was, in a sense, all that interested them. Nowadays their interests have extended to include statistical 'survey work' and, of course, problems of economic development. So successfully conducted are the surveys (at least i…
Food-Farming and Migration from Fante Villages
Opening ParagraphIn January to March 1975 I visited certain Fante food-growing villages near Cape Coast, in southern Ghana, with the intention of investigating the organisation of food-farming, with special reference to the position of women farmers. In the event, as I shall relate, much of my time was spent studying the outward migration which involved nearly all young men and women. In this short article I shall deal with the main sociological …
The Spatial and Temporal Synchronization of Periodic Markets
Polly Hill, Robert H. T. Smith, The Spatial and Temporal Synchronization of Periodic Markets: Evidence from Four Emirates in Northern Nigeria, Economic Geography, Vol. 48, No. 3, Spatial Structure and Process in Tropical West Africa (Jul., 1972), pp. 345-355
The Poor Quality of Official Socio-Economic Statistics Relating to the Rural Tropical World
My main concern in this article is with statistics relating to such basic matters as the sizes of farm-holdings, the output and yield of crops, household income and expenditure, occupational statistics, cattle ownership, the sizes of villages, etc.-though I shall also range more widely. While the distinct and professional field of demographic statistics is necessarily outside my scope, I shall criticize some features of the Karnataka population c…
Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An Economic Survey of Yoruba Cocoa Farming Families
Journal Article Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An economic survey of Toruba cocoa farming families Get access Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An economic survey of Toruba cocoa farming families. By R. Galletti, K. D. S. Baldwin and I. O. Dina. (London: Oxford University Press for the Nigeria Cocoa Marketing Board, 1956. Pp. v + 744. 105s.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Accra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, …
Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa
The Wahi Wanwaturu
Peasants and Poverty
Journal Article Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti Get access Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti. By Mats Lundahl. (London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 699. £19.95. ISBN 0 85664 602 4.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Clare Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 358, 1 June 1980, Pages 431–433, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231822 Published: 01 June 1980
Big Houses in Kano Emirate
Opening ParagraphIn 1971-2 I undertook research in part of the very densely populated farming zone around Kano city (often called the Kano close-settled zone) in order to compare it with a Hausa village, Batagarawa, some 100 miles further north in Katsina Emirate, where I had lived and worked in 1967. At Batagarawa farmland is not scarce and members of the community are free to establish farms on uncultivated (bush) land, some of which is no furt…
Development Economics on Trial
Joint Families in Rural Karnataka, South India
The main purpose of this brief article on the importance of the joint family in six villages in Anekal Taluk, Bangalore District, Karnataka State, is to recommend a simple statistical method of measuring the 'incidence of jointness' among the resident population; it also presents the results of my enquiry
The Gullibility of Development Economists
Abramov, Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish State, Rutherford etc.: Associated University Presses 1976. There is substantive supportive literature on both sides of the somewhat polemical debate over whether there is religious liberty for Jews in Israel. 13. The subject was discussed a few years ago in the pages of RAIN (44, June 1981, by Myron Aronoff, and also, more briefly, in 47, December 1981, by Jonathan Webber); for the first …
The Unemployment Services
Fluctuations in Incomes of Primary Produces
Journal Article Fluctuations in Incomes of Primary Produces Get access Polly Hill Polly Hill London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 63, Issue 250, 1 June 1953, Pages 468–471, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227161 Published: 01 June 1953
Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An Economic Survey of Yoruba Cocoa Farming Families
Journal Article Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An economic survey of Toruba cocoa farming families Get access Nigerian Cocoa Farmers. An economic survey of Toruba cocoa farming families. By R. Galletti, K. D. S. Baldwin and I. O. Dina. (London: Oxford University Press for the Nigeria Cocoa Marketing Board, 1956. Pp. v + 744. 105s.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Accra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, …
The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer
The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer
Journal Article The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer Get access The Gold Coast Cocoa Farmer. By Polly Hill. (London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Pp. 140. 16s.) K. D. S. Baldwin K. D. S. Baldwin Kaduna, Nigeria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 68, Issue 270, 1 June 1958, Pages 387–389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227618 Published: 01 June 1958
The Migrant Cocoa Farmers of Southern Ghana
Opening ParagraphThe development of commercial cocoa growing in Ghana is always assumed to be something of a miracle. It evokes the stereotype of the plodding subsistence farmer, eking out a living by a system of shifting cultivation in the forest. This peasant is correctly presumed to have been unfamiliar with the cash economy centred on palm produce for export and deriving mainly from areas south-east of the forest zone, but he is somehow suppo…
Plantation and Village in the Cameroons
Journal Article Plantation and Village in the Cameroons: Some Economic and Social Studies Get access Plantation and Village in the Cameroons: Some economic and social studies. By E. Ardener, S. Ardener and W. A. Warmington, with a contribution by M. J. Ruel. (London: Oxford University Press, for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1960. Pp. xxxv + 435. 50s.) Polly Hill Polly Hill University of Ghana Search for other works by t…
Markets in Africa
Economists in Africa hold a narrow view of their scope. Traditionally they have been almost entirely concerned with the economic relationship between Africa and the West, with the import and export trade: the colonial situation was, in a sense, all that interested them. Nowadays their interests have extended to include statistical 'survey work' and, of course, problems of economic development. So successfully conducted are the surveys (at least i…
Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies
Journal Article Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies Get access Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies. By R. Firth and B. S. Yamey. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1964. Pp.399. 45s.) Polly Hill Polly Hill Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 75, Issue 297, 1 March 1965, Pages 213–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229283 P…
Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
Africans on the Land
Journal Article Africans on the Land: Economic Problems of African Economic Development in Southern, Central and East Africa, with Special Reference to Southern Rhodesia Get access Africans on the Land: Economic Problems of African Economic Development in Southern, Central and East Africa, with special reference to Southern Rhodesia. By M. Yudelman. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1964. Pp.288. 37s. …
Notes on Traditional Market Authority and Market Periodicity in West Africa
These notes on traditional market authority and market periodicity in West Africa are intended to draw attention to the neglect of a fascinating historico-anthropological field. Given the lack of any satisfactory typology of West African markets, generalizations about all types of market must be avoided—and certain erroneous assumptions relating to the traditional relationship of chief and market are called in question. Nor should it be assumed t…
Landlords and Brokers
Hill Polly. Landlords and Brokers: A West African Trading System (With a Note on Kumasi Butchers). In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 6, n°23, 1966. pp. 349-366
A Plea for Indigenous Economics
[Output Stimulation and Employment Stagnation. Policy By-Products in the Philippines]
Hidden Trade in Hausaland
There have been few attempts to study the functions of rural West African market-places in relation to the socio-economic life of the communities they serve,I and many of the questions which require propounding receive an implicit answer. Thus it is conventionally supposed that where cash percolates into every crevice of the economy, as it does in the Hausa village in northern Nigeria to which this article relates, most cash transactions involvin…
Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa.
The Occupations of Migrants in Ghana
In this study, which is statistically based on the 1960 Ghana population census, author Polly Hill attempts to show that economically motivated migration takes a much greater variety of occupational forms than is conventionally supposed. Hill reports on the occupations, geographical distribution, and urbanization of Ghana's migrant population, and supplies notes on 34 migratory ethic groups
Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa
Originally published in 1970, this is a collection of studies of indigenous economies in Ghana and Nigeria by an author with an unusual interdisciplinary approach. In the opening section it is contended that most economists interested in underdeveloped countries have neglected the detailed study of economic organization and mechanism in the field, especially in rural areas, and that, as a result, there has been little testing of many conventional…
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and African Development
Rural Hausa
This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa. At the time of publication there were perhaps as many as 15 million Hausa-speaking people in the area, most of whom lived in the countryside in northern Nigeria and the neighbouring Niger Republic. This book is at once an examination of the socio-economic life of a small Hausa village and a study of the way of life of the rural Hausa generally. The…
Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa
The Spatial and Temporal Synchronization of Periodic Markets
Polly Hill, Robert H. T. Smith, The Spatial and Temporal Synchronization of Periodic Markets: Evidence from Four Emirates in Northern Nigeria, Economic Geography, Vol. 48, No. 3, Spatial Structure and Process in Tropical West Africa (Jul., 1972), pp. 345-355
The Occupations of Migrants in Ghana
Socioeconomic Study of the Hausa
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