Fathers work for their sons: accumulation, mobility, class, formation in an extended Yorùbá community

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Title:	Fathers work for their sons: accumulation, mobility, class, formation in an extended Yorùbá community
Author:	Berry, Sara S.
Year:	1985
Pages:	225
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Berkeley, CA
Publisher:	University of CCalifornia Press
ISBN:	0520051645
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Yoruba farmers cocoa
Abstract:	Study of Yoruba cocoa farmers and their descendants in western Nigeria, analysing the consequences of agricultural commercialization for economic development, political mobilization, and social change. The author descibes the ways in which farmers have used their income from export crop production, and examines the implications of farmers' expenditure patterns for the changing structure of economic activity. She also traces income transfers and changing social relations among migrant farmers, their home communities, and their emigrant sons and daughters. By utilizing case histories of individuals, descent groups, and communities, she elucidates aggregate processes of change.