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ROBERT McC. NETTING
ROBERT McC. NETTING
Pages 125-140
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lifelong studies of the vital relationships linking peoples' social institutions, incliviclual behaviors, en c! collective beliefs to their procluction practices.
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For his Ph.D. dissertation research Netting spent eighteen months from 1960 to 1962 studying the agrarian practices of the Kofyar, a people living in the hilly escarpments of the Jos Plateau in northern Nigeria.
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periods in the field! or shorter summer consultantjobs, Netting servec!
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functionalist in orientation. In the 1960s he undertook research among the Kofyar of northern Nigeria with a clear problem in mincI.
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agrarian economy Netting clemonstrates that population density, division of labor, en c! rights to lane!
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, Netting found time to write a useful little book explaining his own anthropological perspective. Cultural Ecology ~977)
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ecological adaptations, Netting undertook research cluring the early 1970s on the German-speaking Alpine community of Torbel in the Vispertal of the Valais canton of southern SwitzerIancI. The Torbel inhabitants practice an intensive, largely self-sufficient, mixer!
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in the irrigation system coexisted for 300 years with private tenure practices exercised in the intensively cultivated agricultural plots. Discussion of population dynamics covers four chapters en c!
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Their environmentally appropriate and efficient ways of mobilizing labor, reclucing external inputs, en c! diminishing risk contrast with the wasteful procedures inherent in agribusiness en c!
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Consistent with previous writings, Netting Antis in the theories of Ester Boserup, the Danish economist, the most intellectually satisfying reason for the smalIhoIcler way of life. Boserup was the first scholar to argue that a positive relationship exists between population density (anc!
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24~1996~:125-35~. Two additional forthcoming pieces by Richard Wilk and Priscilla Stone, both devoted students of Netting, also were helpful.
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71:1037-46. Ecosystems in process: A comparative study of change in two West African societies.
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3:21-56. 1976 What Alpine peasants have in common: Observations on communal land tenure in a Swiss village.
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Agricultural expansion, intensification, and market participation among the Kofyar, Jos Plateau, Nigeria. In Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa, eds.
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