88 



lABOR 



Goinful Employment 

 ond 



Cornm?rcial Production 

 53 0% 



All Economic Activities 

 87. 77. 



Chart 15.- 



'Usable" time. 



building and maintenance, and cutting and bring- 

 ing firewood, are equivalents for men, but not of 

 course in importance. Although payment of rent 

 is not required, men generally work for money and 

 use the money — rather than their time — to supply 

 household needs. 



Buying and selling is a major enterprise of both 

 sexes, for men second only to agriculture and for 

 women on a par with the making of cloth and 

 garments. Indeed, in the context of the culture, 

 marketing is even more significant than the pro- 

 portion of time devoted to it, for selling the pro- 

 duce (rather than harvesting it) is the real 

 culmination of the cycle of agriculture, just as 

 buying, where the prerogative of choice is most 

 clearly enjoyed, is the beginning of social living. 



Practices in the hiring of labor, and the role of 

 specialists in the society', follow a description of 

 the more general division of labor. 



T.VDLE 19. — Tims devo'.ed lo agriculture and domestic animals 

 by sex and age 



' From t:iMe 3'.»: tlie tit.:ils are hrgpr in chart l(i, whicli adds 2,000 woman- 

 days and 5,000 chitd-days (to take accoutit of the extra time put in by women 

 and children to uccornjilish their "man-days") and sutttract.-; the labor done 

 by outsiders (160 from men's, IGO women's, and UO chjldrcii'sj. 



