society and isolated from the market. Also, notes that the decline in agricultural surplus is due to migration of many of Basotho to South Africa to find job. The declarations by the World Bank prove to be wrong as scholars say. First, Lesotho has not been a subsistence country but a producer in the twentieth country for the South African market. What’s additional, the Basotho were familiar with how to sell their products when they faced a surplus. Second, the decline in the agricultural spare has
families or groups together. Bride wealth is the exchange of a bride for money or livestock to the same or similar value. Bride wealth in Basotho is usually paid to the father of the bride, livestock animals are sometimes loaned fro members of the community or family as a form of money in order to pay for the bride, and this links a lot of families in Basotho to one another in livestock through debt and credit of livestock. Ferguson, J. (2006) Bride wealth is a form of wealth transference as well
5 Themes of Geography- Lesotho Where in the world is Lesotho? Lesotho is a small country in Southern Africa. On all sides it’s surrounded by the country of South Africa, besides the Vatican and San Mariano, it is one of the few countries completely surrounded by one country. To find it on a map would be as follows, it is about 27 to 30 degrees east; while also about 28 to 31 degrees south. In relation to cities, Lesotho is south of Pretoria. It is on the southern tip of the African continent, earning
Funeral Practices and Their Meanings Funeral do not happen till 2 or more weeks after someone has died. It can even be over a month. This is because they need to get money together to pay for all the food that is needed, plus everyone must be notified. When someone dies the immediate family is told in person and not over the phone. They will call them and tell them to come quickly or tell them that the person is sick. When a woman who is married dies, it is often the job of her in-laws to tell her
The gap between developed and underdeveloped is evident in today’s world. In naïve effort to bridge this gap a host of aid projects and development schemes are plotted onto less developed countries. But what is development really? James Ferguson attempts to explore this concept in his book “The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho”. The book is an extension of Ferguson’s PhD dissertation and was published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press. The