Book
Landlords and strangers: ecology, society, and trade in western Africa, 1000-1630
Westview Press • Boulder • Published In 1993 • Pages: xvi, 360
By: Brooks, George E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comprehensive history of West Africa from the Cape Verde archipelago to the bend in the Niger River and from the Senegal River south to the Cape Mount area of Liberia, mainly covering the period from 1100 to 1630 AD (the Regional Development period is from ca 1000-1500 AD). It was a dynamic time, when many economic, social, and cultural patterns emerged that continue to the present. The discussion covers climate, changing flora, languages, migrations, trade and how it promoted migration, commercial networks, commodities traded, smiths, leather workers, bards, power associations, social structure, slavery, real property and land tenure, invasions, warfare, the spread of Islam, the treatment of outsiders, the various state societies, and interactions with Europeans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Internal migration
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Linguistic identification
- Smiths and their crafts
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Routes
- Status, role, and prestige
- Slavery
- Sodalities
- External relations
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Regional Development
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-1630 AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- West Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- George E. Brooks
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-344) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92047445
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Regional Development
- Africa, West--History--To 1884
- Africa, West--Commerce--History