Aspects socio-économiques de la préparation et de la circulation de la nourriture dans un village hausa (Niger)

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ID3650282
AuthorsClaude Raynaut (0000-0001-5115-9765, corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume17
Issue68
Pages569-597
Publication date1977-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1977.2431
OpenAlexW2025258157
LanguageFR
Citations received7
References cited1

C. Raynaut-Cooking and Circulating Food in a Hausa Village: Socio-Economic Aspects. The study of the preparation and distribution of food is most likely to cast an interesting light on the deep relational structure under-lying an economic system. In the Hausa village of Soumarana (Niger Republic) the households are not self-sufficient and autarchic as far as food is concerned. They rely to a large extent on commercial transactions to supplement home grown produce. Labour division obtains both in the production of the basic foodstuffs and in their ulterior preparation and circulation. Not only do butchers, for instance, form a special professional category, but men and women cook, sell and buy different kinds of food. Commercial transactions reach their peak during the scarcity season, just before the harvest, when people are short of both food and money. This apparently paradoxical situation is linked with recent social changes and the increase of tensions between elders and youth, and between men and women. Women, especially, have become able to maximize the profit from their own crops while making the men pay for the food they cook for them: exchanges are no longer based on barter and food has become an item in the money-based economy

Agricultural science · Barter · Biology · Business · Circulation (fluid dynamics) · Division of labour · Economics · Economy · Geography · Hausa · Market economy · Profit (economics) · Scarcity · Socioeconomics · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Engineering

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