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Book Synopsis Anthropology And Rural Development In West Africa by : Michael M Horowitz
Download or read book Anthropology And Rural Development In West Africa written by Michael M Horowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past ten years. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and in other parts of the Third World. The book is not a manual that seeks to present solutions; rather it describes some of the kinds of development situations in which anthropologists participated and examines the kind of tensions under which they operated.
Book Synopsis Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa by : M M (Michael M); Painter Horowitz (T M (Thomas M).)
Download or read book Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa written by M M (Michael M); Painter Horowitz (T M (Thomas M).) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anthropology And Development In North Africa And The Middle East by : Muneera Salem-Murdock
Download or read book Anthropology And Development In North Africa And The Middle East written by Muneera Salem-Murdock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. It demonstrates that anthropology and social sciences have a good deal to contribute to the understanding of domestic economies.
Book Synopsis Anthropology Of Development And Change In East Africa by : David W. Brokensha
Download or read book Anthropology Of Development And Change In East Africa written by David W. Brokensha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors are grateful for the editing and production assistance of a number of IDA staff members, especially Sylvia Horowitz, who copyedited the entire manuscript and supervised its transformation for computer-generated typesetting. Vivian Carlip gave a second editorial reading, Cecily O'Neil helped with production, the manuscript was proofread by Vera Beers-Tyler, and Peter Daly designed the map on the following page. To the contributors, of course, goes our greatest appreciation, for their gracious cooperation in making requested revisions as well as for the content of their work.
Download or read book Bush Bound written by Paolo Gaibazzi and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Book Synopsis Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa by : Paul Clough
Download or read book Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa written by Paul Clough and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
Book Synopsis Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa by : Polly Hill
Download or read book Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa written by Polly Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-04-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of rural area economic structures and mechanisms in West Africa, with particular reference to ownership and capitalist entrepreneurship among indigenous peoples in Ghana and Nigeria - covers economic implications and social implications of marketing activities connected with agriculture, animal production and fishery. Bibliography pp. 160 to 165, maps and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by : Carola Lentz
Download or read book Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa written by Carola Lentz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University
Book Synopsis Women Wielding the Hoe by : Deborah Bryceson
Download or read book Women Wielding the Hoe written by Deborah Bryceson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How effective is western aid-agency intervention in Africa? What can African women do to manage the AIDS crisis? Can western feminist theory be applied to the rural African context?These vital issues, and many others, are considered in this topical book by eminent scholars and development consultants. The book aims to increase awareness of the importance of women agricultural producers to African material development and to expose the western biases that have traditionally pervaded the study of rural African women. The authors' critical analyses of conventional research methodology and key 'women and development' debates over the last three decades will stimulate new research perspectives. Students and scholars of development, development workers and policymakers will all find this book fascinating reading.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Ethnic Conflict by : Andreas Dafinger
Download or read book The Economics of Ethnic Conflict written by Andreas Dafinger and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed anthropological account of the policies and practices of Burkina Faso, set against the background of the region's developing economies and ethnic diversity, examines the social, economic and political transformation of Western Africa. Behind the screen of ethnic conflicts, lie vibrant 'concealed economies' that have led to new economic and political practices at almost all levels of national and civil administration.
Book Synopsis Anthropology, Development and Modernities by : Alberto Arce
Download or read book Anthropology, Development and Modernities written by Alberto Arce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the diffusion of modernity and the spread of development schemes may bring prosperity, optimism and opportunity for some, for others it has brought poverty, a deterioration in quality of life and has given rise to violence. This collection brings an anthropological perspective to bear on understanding the diverse modernities we face in the contemporary world. It provides a critical review of interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from regions as diverse as Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West Africa and contemporary Europe. Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. Ethnography can show how people's own agency transforms, recasts and complicates the modernities they experience. The contributors argue that explanations of change framed in terms of the dominantdiscourses and institutions of modernity are inadequate, and that we give closer attention to discourses, images, beliefs and practices that run counter to these yet play a part in shaping them and giving them meaning. Anthropology, Development and Modernities deals with the realities of people's everyday lives and dilemmas. It is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and development studies. It should also be read by all those actively involved in development work.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa by : Robert H. Bates
Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa written by Robert H. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-04-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.
Book Synopsis The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa by : Claude Meillassoux
Download or read book The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa written by Claude Meillassoux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of internal economic and political conditions and of external relations on the development of trade and markets in West Africa from the period of the slave trade to the growth in the 20th century in production for overseas markets and rapidly expanding urban centres. Other essays discuss various aspects of local and regional trade and markets from the nineteenth century onwards.
Book Synopsis African Food Systems in Crisis: Contending with change by : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
Download or read book African Food Systems in Crisis: Contending with change written by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis African Food Systems in Crisis by : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore
Download or read book African Food Systems in Crisis written by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Production and Autonomy by : Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting
Download or read book Production and Autonomy written by Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural Settlement Structure And African Development by : Marilyn Silberfein
Download or read book Rural Settlement Structure And African Development written by Marilyn Silberfein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a group of researchers applying their insights and experience to a common theme. All the authors are con-cerned with rural development in Africa and all have focused on the con-nection between the development process and the arrangement of people and their built environment in rural space. Both anthropologists and geo-graphers have contributed to the dialogue on this subject and represen-tatives of the two disciplines are included in this volume. The members of this group have never all been in the same place at the same time, and so have utilized various electronic modes of commu-nication to link their locations around the world. Two conferences were organized, however, among a subset of the whole, in order to generate a group discussion. One of these meetings was a symposium on African rural development held at Temple University while a second was orga-nized at the African Studies Association Meetings in Toronto. Both opportunities helped raise issues that found their way into individual chapters. The audience in each case further stimulated our thinking.