1st Edition
Building the Homestead Agriculture, Labour and Beer in South Africa's Transkei
By P. McAllister
Copyright 2001
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. "This is also a study of rural Xhosa identity and community, and its survival in the face of the overwhelming odds stacked against it by colonialism and apartheid. The maintenance of homestead production can be properly understood only if this wider context is taken into consideration. The analysis is thus directly relevant to current debates about agrarian... Read more
Maps, Tables and Photographs, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. SHIXINI AND ITS PEOPLE, 3. SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE, OR ' SCRATCHING ABOUT IN THE SOIL'?, 4. CO-OPERATIVE LABOUR IN AFRICA: AN OVERVIEW, 5. WORK PARTIES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL PRODUCTION, 6. DRINKING AND WORKING, 7. BEER, LABOUR AND THE HOMESTEAD, REFERENCES
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McAllister, P.
