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Focusing on the economic dynamics of Marmara village in Hausaland, this study explores land, labor, credit, and trading institutions through fieldwork during contrasting economic periods. It presents a novel perspective on rural accumulation in a polygynous society, revealing how it mitigates inequality while fostering technical innovation. The analysis highlights a unique African non-capitalist accumulation model that prioritizes family expansion and social networks over capital acquisition, challenging traditional Marxian and New Institutional Economics frameworks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2011, held in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2010. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 24 poster papers, 17 short papers, and 6 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 223 full research paper submissions and 64 poster/demo submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on text categorization, recommender systems, Web IR, IR evaluation, IR for Social Networks, cross-language IR, IR theory, multimedia IR, IR applications, interactive IR, and question answering /NLP.