Peter D. Little

Economic and Political Reform in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Peter D. Little is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Development Studies at Emory University.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780253010841
• ISBN-10: 0253010845
• Artikelnr.: 36900807

Autorenporträt

Peter D. Little is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Development Studies at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: What it means to be "Reformed?"
1. 'They Think We Can Manufacture Crops:' Contract Farming and the
Non-Traditional Commodity Business
2. 'Everybody is a Petty Trader:' Peri-Urban Trade in Post-Conflict Maputo,
Mozambique
3. 'We Now Milk Elephants:' The Community Conservation Business in Rural
Kenya
4. 'They are Beating Us Over the Head with Democracy:' Multi-Party
Elections in Rural Kenya
5. 'The Government is always telling us what to think:' Narratives of food
aid dependence in rural Ethiopia
6. 'Counting the poor:' The politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in
Kenya
7. 'A sort of free business:' Stateless Somalia and a hyper-liberalized
economy
Conclusions: Rethinking encounters and reformist narratives
Notes
Bibliography
Index