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Economic and political reform in Africa anthropological perspectives
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Economic and political reform in Africa [electronic resource] : anthropological perspectives / Peter D. Little.
ISBN
9780253010933
9780253010797 (cl : alk. paper)
9780253010841 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : what it means to be "reformed"
"They think we can manufacture crops" : contract farming and the nontraditional commodity business
"Everybody is a petty trader" : peri-urban trade in postconflict Maputo, Mozambique
"We now milk elephants" : the community conservation business in rural Kenya
"They are beating us over the head with democracy" : multiparty elections in rural Kenya
"The government is always telling us what to think" : narratives of food aid dependence in rural Ethiopia
"Counting the poor" : the politics of pastoralist poverty assessments in Kenya
"A sort of free business" : hyper-liberalization and Somali transnationalism
Conclusions : rethinking encounters and reformist narratives.
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