Audrey I. Richards's Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia, published by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute in 1939, is a foundational economic ethnography of the Bemba people by one of the twentieth century's most influential British social anthropologists. Its authority rests on Richards's extended direct fieldwork among the Bemba and its enduring standing as a classic of the discipline. It describes Bemba economic and social life as observed in the 1930s under colonial administration, so a claim about contemporary Bemba life needs a more recent source.
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Audrey I. Richards's Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia, Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1939, the top tier reflecting extended direct fieldwork among the Bemba by one of the twentieth century's most influential British social anthropologists and its enduring standing as a classic of the discipline. It describes Bemba life as observed in the 1930s under colonial administration; a claim about contemporary Bemba life needs a more recent source. NotesRichards's ethnographic economic study of the Bemba people of Northern Rhodesia.
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AuthorAudrey I. Richards
PublisherOxford University Press for the International African Institute
Publication Year1939
Source TypeEthnography
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Religions, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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