Sources of Material Inequality in Lushoto District, Tanzania

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Title:	Sources of Material Inequality in Lushoto District, Tanzania
Author:	Fleuret, Patrick C.
Year:	1980
Periodical:	African Studies Review
Volume:	23
Issue:	3
Period:	December
Pages:	69-87
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	wealth Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Labor and Employment Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/523672
Abstract:	Factors such as labour migration, cash-cropping, and variation in land-holding help to explain the origin of inequality in Usambara (Tanzania), but the interactions among them are a good deal more complex than has been generally admitted. The present author examines such diverse issues as family size, historical ties to the land, domestic expenditure, labour-time budgets, and the process of capital accumulation in an attempt to explain emerging wealth differences in one Usambara village, Kwemzitu. The few wealthy men in Kwemzitu owe their position to birth ( the simple good fortune to be born a member of a core lineage, thereby being assured of adequate access to land) and the institution of wage labour in its appearance as kibarua (day labour). Map, notes., tab.