A survey of categories of economic activities among the peoples of Africa

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Title:	A survey of categories of economic activities among the peoples of Africa
Author:	Reader, D.H.
Year:	1964
Periodical:	Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:	34
Issue:	1
Pages:	28-45
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subject:	subsistence economy
External links:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/1157360 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1964-034-00-000004
Abstract:	This essay, based on a review of the documentation on tribal economics in Africa, attempts to outline reported economic development within and outside the subsistence sector, in traditional African societies, to assess tribal economic attitudes disclosed, to appraise, in the light of these, probable reactions towards further economic development with reference to the technological, industrial, and commercial dimensions of urbanization. It provides not a classification of economies, which are complex in Africa, but only of economic categories. To group African peoples suitable for economic analysis Murdock's classification was used with some modification. The following categories are discerned: Subsistence; Non-monetary trading; Monetary Trading; Cash-cropping; Migrant Labour; Industrial Labour. The zonal analysis discernes; A subsistence area; Non-monetary trading areas; Mixed money-earning areas; An industrial area. Figure; tables; bibliography. French summary.