ABSTRACT

This essay explores a model for inequality in Nigerian rural Hausaland based on fieldwork carried out from 1977 to 1979, with follow-up visits in 1996 and from 1997 to 1998. In the model, rural differentiation in areas of high population density and intensive market networks is theorized as resulting from a trajectory of non-capitalist accumulation. Capital accumulation in such areas is limited by ‘polygynous accumulation’ and ‘cliental accumulation’. Three accumulative forms are integrated by a culturally specific Islamic morality of hidima (social responsibility for others). This morality prevents the emergence of capitalist class differences. Case studies of accumulators from the summers of 2017 and 2018 show that rural accumulators continue to build polygynous households of extraordinary size. At the same time, economic growth in the national capital, Abuja, and to a lesser extent in other northern cities, has maintained high real labour rates. Rural accumulators continue to follow the trajectory of non-capitalist accumulation.

摘要

本文根据1977年至1979年进行的实地调查，并在1996年和1997年至1998年进行了后续访问，探索了尼日利亚农村豪萨兰省的不平等模型。在该模型中，高人口密度和密集市场网络地区的农村分化理论上是由于非资本主义积累的轨迹而产生的。这些领域的资本积累受到“多边积累”和“客户积累”的限制。Hidima的一种特定于文化的伊斯兰道德将三种累积形式结合在一起（对他人的社会责任）。这种道德观念阻止了资本主义阶级差异的出现。从2017年和2018年夏季对蓄能器进行的案例研究表明，农村蓄能器继续建造规模庞大的一夫多妻制家庭。同时，国家首都阿布贾以及其他北部城市的经济增长在一定程度上保持了较高的实际劳动率。农村积累者继续遵循非资本主义积累的轨迹。