| Kofyar agriculture is an intricate system that balances the labor
demands of numerous crops with weather, availability of household and
communal labor, market incentives, and cash flow. This is a snapshot
of the organization of agricultural labor for one growing cycle, based
on 50,000 labor bouts recorded in Core Area ungwas in 1984-85. The
scale and legend to the left applies to the entire display.
The labor patterns are described in
- G.D.Stone (1996) Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial
Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
- M.P.Stone, G.D.Stone and R.M.Netting (1995) The Sexual Division
of Labor in Kofyar Agriculture. American Ethnologist 22:165-
186.
- R.M.Netting, G.D.Stone and M.P.Stone (1995) Social Organization
of Agrarian Labor. In Comparative Analysis of Human Societies,
ed. E.Moran, pp. 55-73. Lynne Rienner, Boulder.
- G.D.Stone, R.M.Netting, and M.P.Stone (1990) Seasonality, Labor
Scheduling and Agricultural Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna.
American Anthropologist 92:7-23.
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