Author: Bernardo Berdichewsky
Publisher: World Anthropology
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Conference report on social implications of land reform and related rural area social change in developing countries and Eastern Europe, from a social and cultural anthropology vantage point - examines transformation of traditional cultures and modernization, impacts of agricultural development and rural development on cultural change, agrarian reform and bureaucracy, land settlement schemes, subsistence farming, tribal peoples and lower class proletarization, etc. Bibliographys, maps and photographs. Conference held in oshkosh 1973 aug 28 to 30.
Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas
Author: Bernardo Berdichewsky
Publisher: World Anthropology
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Conference report on social implications of land reform and related rural area social change in developing countries and Eastern Europe, from a social and cultural anthropology vantage point - examines transformation of traditional cultures and modernization, impacts of agricultural development and rural development on cultural change, agrarian reform and bureaucracy, land settlement schemes, subsistence farming, tribal peoples and lower class proletarization, etc. Bibliographys, maps and photographs. Conference held in oshkosh 1973 aug 28 to 30.
Publisher: World Anthropology
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Conference report on social implications of land reform and related rural area social change in developing countries and Eastern Europe, from a social and cultural anthropology vantage point - examines transformation of traditional cultures and modernization, impacts of agricultural development and rural development on cultural change, agrarian reform and bureaucracy, land settlement schemes, subsistence farming, tribal peoples and lower class proletarization, etc. Bibliographys, maps and photographs. Conference held in oshkosh 1973 aug 28 to 30.
Anthropology and Development
Author: Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136137
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
After Socialism
Author: R. G. Abrahams
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819109
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains papers from a September 1993 workshop on the privatization of agriculture in Eastern Europe, exploring the situation in several countries. Discusses reform policies and actual processes of land reform, the emergence of new family farms, and the creation of new forms of cooperative and joint stock company, with papers on land reform in a Bulgarian village, redefining women's work in rural Poland, and decollectivization and total scarcity in High Albania. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819109
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Contains papers from a September 1993 workshop on the privatization of agriculture in Eastern Europe, exploring the situation in several countries. Discusses reform policies and actual processes of land reform, the emergence of new family farms, and the creation of new forms of cooperative and joint stock company, with papers on land reform in a Bulgarian village, redefining women's work in rural Poland, and decollectivization and total scarcity in High Albania. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Thailand’s Political Peasants
Author: Andrew Walker
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299288234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299288234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
Author: Lena Kaufmann
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048552184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048552184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.
Peasants And Power
Author: Joan Sokolovsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000314707
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Focusing on events in Hungary and Poland from 1948 to 1962, Dr Sokolovsky shows why collectivization can best be understood as an element in state-building for the new regimes of Eastern Europe. For these countries policy options were constrained by dependence upon the Soviet Union and the economic demands of a newly industrializing society. Econom
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000314707
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Focusing on events in Hungary and Poland from 1948 to 1962, Dr Sokolovsky shows why collectivization can best be understood as an element in state-building for the new regimes of Eastern Europe. For these countries policy options were constrained by dependence upon the Soviet Union and the economic demands of a newly industrializing society. Econom
Social Change And Applied Anthropology
Author: Miriam Chaiken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000311678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000311678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.
Food, Agriculture and Social Change
Author: Stephen Sherwood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315440075
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315440075
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.
Popular Participation in Social Change
Author: June Nash
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311080638X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311080638X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Research Grants Index
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description