The Cultural Topography of Wealth: Commodity Paths and the Structure of Property in Rural Lesotho

American Anthropologist

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 55-73

  Ferguson, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY EXCHANGE; COMMODITY PATHS; CULTURAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL TOPOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC EXCHANGE; EXCHANGE; PROPERTY STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; WEALTH; WEALTH DOMAIN;

LESOTHO;

EID: 0026479019     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1992.94.1.02a00040     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value
2. Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv
3. The Impact of Money on an African Subsistence Economy
4. Indicators of Rural Inequality
5. Introduction
6. Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods: Cattle and Commodities in a South African Context
7. Reflections on the Relevance of a Theory of the History of Exchange
8. An Alternative Term for “Brideprice”
9. The Bovine Mystique: Power, Property, and Livestock in Rural Lesotho
10. Cultural Exchange: New Developments in the Anthropology of Commodities
11. What Is This Thing Called Brideprice?
12. The Cattle Complex in East Africa
13. The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process
14. High Bridewealth, Migrant Labor and the Position of Women in Lesotho
15. The Role and Determinants of Bride‐Price: The Case of a Palestinian Village
16. Review of Wealth Ranking in Smallholder Communities, by B Grandin
17. Traditional Economic Systems
18. Rural Differentiation and the Diffusion of Migrant Labour Remittances in Lesotho
19. Rural‐Urban Migration and the Rural Alternative in Mwase Lundazi, Eastern Province, Zambia