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Social Anthropology
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology.
The Anthropology of Power
This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.
The Anthropology of Power
This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.
Living Under Contract
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops--from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice--under contract to agribusinesses, exporters, and processers. The proliferation of African growers producing under contract is in fact part of broader changes in the global agro-food system. In this examination of agricultural re...
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Institutional Change in the Horn of Africa
Traditional theories of property rights change have posited an evolutionary progression of property rights towards private property in response to changes in the relative price ratio of land compared to the other factors of production. Using case studies from two areas of Ethiopia and one area of Eritrea the dissertation demonstrates the role of political factors such as interest group preference and state intervention in directing property rights development away from a linear path. The case studies trace the development of three separate systems of property rights throughout the twentieth century up to the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Analysis of history and litigation in the three areas ...
Social Anthropology
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology.
Is It Nation Time?
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Black Power RevisitedEddie S. Glaude Jr.1. The Paradox of the African American RebellionCornel West2. Black Particularity ReconsideredAdolph L. Reed Jr.3. Stormy Weather: Reconstructing Black (Inter)Nationalism in the Cold War EraRobin D. G. Kelley4. Reflecting Black: Zimbabwe and U.S. Black NationalismGerald Horne5. Conflict and Chorus: Reconsidering Toni Cade's The Black Woman: An AnthologyFarah Jasmine Griffin6. Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counter Discourse, and African American NationalismE. Frances White7. Standing in for the State: Black Nationalism and "Writing" the Black SubjectWahneema Lubiano8. Nationalism and Social Division in Black Arts Poetry of the 1960sPhillip Brian Harper9. "Black Is Back, and It's Bound to Sell!": Nationalist Desire and the Production of Black Popular CultureS. Craig Watkins10. After The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin's Postconsensus Double BindWill Walker11. Theses on Black NationalismJeffrey StoutList of ContributorsIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
