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Book Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas

Download or read book Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas written by Bernardo Berdichewsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Development from Below

Download or read book Development from Below written by David C. Pitt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropology and Development

Download or read book Anthropology and Development written by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas

Download or read book Anthropology and Social Change in Rural Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, held in Chicago, 1973.

Book From Production to Consumption

Download or read book From Production to Consumption written by Hana Horáková and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows new research perspectives showing the impact of tourism on the rural world. The articles presented contribute to the analysis of the new rurality in global society.

Book When the Hands Are Many

Download or read book When the Hands Are Many written by Jennie M. Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of the world's most impoverished, politically disempowered, and illiterate citizens, debate the meanings of development, democracy, and the public good.Smith offers a historically grounded overview of how the Haitian state and certain foreign powers have sought to develop rural Haiti and relates how Haitian peasants have responded to such efforts through words and deeds. The author argues that songs called chante pwen serve as "melodic machetes," a tool with which the peasants make their voices heard in many social circumstances.When the Hands Are Many illustrates the philosophies, styles, and structures typical of social organization in rural Haiti with narrative portraits of peasant organizations engaged in agricultural work parties, business meetings, religious ceremonies, social service projects, song sessions, and other activities. Smith integrates these organizations' strengths into a new vision for social change and asks what must happen in Haiti and elsewhere to facilitate positive transformation in the world today.

Book Alternative countrysides

Download or read book Alternative countrysides written by Jeremy Macclancy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against residents’ realities, they detail the clashes and the cooperations between old and new residents. They make us rethink the rural/urban divide, investigate regionalists’ politicisation of rural life and heritage, and reveal how locals use EU monies to prop up or challenge existing hierarchies. They expose the consequences of and reactions to grand EU-restructuring policies, which at times threaten to turn the countryside into a manicured playground for escapee urbanites. This book will appeal to anyone seriously interested in the realities of rural life today.

Book Town Talk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ghaus Ansari
  • Publisher : Brill Archive
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9789004070233
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Town Talk written by Ghaus Ansari and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power  Politics  and Progress

Download or read book Power Politics and Progress written by William Foote Whyte and published by New York : Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on social change in rural areas in Peru - describes historical background of the peasant movement, evolution of and social conflict in rural communitys, political aspects of rural development, etc., and examines the contribution of interdisciplinary research to social theory. Bibliography pp. 301 to 307, graphs, maps and statistical tables.

Book An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development

Download or read book An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development written by Norman Long and published by Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropology and Development in Traditional Societies

Download or read book Anthropology and Development in Traditional Societies written by Hari Mohan Mathur and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1989 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economic Development and Social Change

Download or read book Economic Development and Social Change written by George Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of anthropological and social research articles on the impact of economic development and social change on rural area communities and tribal peoples - contains descriptions of primitive and peasant economies before modernisation, and of the long term social implications of colonialism and covers agrarian reform, rural development, industrialization, etc. Bibliography pp. 619 to 651.

Book Social Change and Social Research

Download or read book Social Change and Social Research written by Rann Singh Mann and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peasants Power Applied Social Change

Download or read book Peasants Power Applied Social Change written by Henry F. Dobyns and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1971-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study of rural development in the vicos rural community in Peru, showing the social change implications of agrarian reform for other American Indian communities and indigenous peoples - includes a project evaluation of the 15-year cornell development project, explains the use of experimental intervention as a research methodology in social and cultural anthropology, and covers the project's results in terms of political participation, human relationships, etc. Bibliography, illustrations and statistical tables.

Book When History Accelerates

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  • Author : C. M. Hann
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-10-06
  • ISBN : 1474287220
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book When History Accelerates written by C. M. Hann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid and complex social change is of urgent concern to all human societies, but how can researchers do justice both to the objective complexities of causal relations and to subjective experiences of different types of change? The present volume focuses upon cases of 'accelerating change' – including Russia, Iran, South Africa and Turkey – and examines some of the theoretical issues involved in conceptualizing social change and transformation and the methods for their study. The fifteen essays in this collection will be of interest to all students of history and the social sciences; and especially to students of social anthropology, sociology and development studies.

Book Social Change in Rural Society

Download or read book Social Change in Rural Society written by Everett M. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inside Outside

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  • Author : B. S. Baviskar
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
  • Release : 2014-02-14
  • ISBN : 9788132113508
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Inside Outside written by B. S. Baviskar and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty in rural India: Is this a permanent condition? Are villagers immobilized by a rigid caste system, limited resources and economic exploitation? This book is about villagers who have done remarkable things with their lives—people who have broken the constraints of poverty and inequality to become innovative and mobile. It is written partly by one villager who found a career doing research on social change. Inside–Outside narrates stories of grassroots change and innovation. These stories are discussed from the combined view of an insider (Baviskar), who grew up in a village in western India, and an outsider (Attwood), who came to study social change in the same region. Telling life stories from people who taught and surprised them, they challenge common stereotypes about Indian villagers—stereotypes of passivity, fatalism, and stagnation. Baviskar’s life and experience of change in his home village exemplify grassroots initiative and innovation. He was born as the son of an impoverished farmer in a drought-stricken village in western Maharashtra. Ability, hard work, and some dramatic twists of fate enabled him to attend college and then complete a doctorate in India’s premier sociology department. In contrast to Baviskar, Attwood is a complete outsider, having grown up in a suburb near Chicago, in the US heartland. He stumbled into anthropology and spent several years in India, doing fieldwork in the region where Baviskar grew up. The two met in 1969; they became friends and began four decades of collaborative research. Here they tell the stories of villagers who changed their own lives and who also, in many cases, changed the lives of others. These stories describe rapid innovation and institution-building in the countryside, challenging an array of common stereotypes about village life in India. Seeking explanations for change, it helps to look at village life from many angles. Inside and outside views are complementary and provide a more complete picture.