Settlement Ecology

The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture

By: Glenn Davis Stone

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Hardcover | 1 November 1996

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What determines agrarian settlement patterns? Glenn Davis Stone addresses this question by analyzing the spatial aspects of agrarian ecology--the relationship between how farmers farm and where they settle--and how farming and settlement change as population density rises. Crosscutting the fields of cultural anthropology, archaeology, geography, and agricultural economics, Settlement Ecology presents a new perspective on the process of agricultural intensification and explores the relationships between intensification and settlement decision making. Stone insists that paleotechnic ("traditional") agriculture must be seen as a social process, with the social organization of agricultural work playing a key role in shaping settlement characteristics. These relationships are demonstrated in a richly documented case study of the Kofyar, who have been settling a frontier in the Nigerian savanna. The history of agricultural change and the development of the settlement pattern are reconstructed through ethnography, archival research, and aerial photos and are analyzed using innovative graphical methods. Stone also reflects on the limits of ecological determination of settlement, comparing the farming and settlement trajectories of the Kofyar and Tiv on the same frontier.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Causality in Agrarian Settlement Systems	p. 12
Agrarian Production and Settlement	p. 28
The Kofyar Homeland	p. 57
Frontiering	p. 74
Pioneer Agrarian Settlement	p. 88
Land Pressure and Intensification	p. 101
Intensification, Dispersal, and Agglomeration	p. 118
Agricultural Movement	p. 129
Ethnicity and Settlement	p. 140
Settlement and the Physical Landscape	p. 159
Agrarian Ecology and Culture	p. 181
Methods of Studying Agrarian Settlement	p. 197
Notes	p. 201
References	p. 215
Index	p. 251
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