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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226388484
ISBN-139780226388489
eBay Product ID (ePID)66544
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBroken Hoe : Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria
Publication Year1995
SubjectEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Industries / Agribusiness, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World / African, Sociology / Rural, Public Policy / Regional Planning
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Uru Iyam
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Science, Business & Economics
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-039003
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal307.72/09669/44
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface 1: Issues in Rural Development 2: The Biase of Southeastern Nigeria 3: Use of Environmental Resources 4: Managing the Environment 5: The Economy 6: Biase Social Organization and the Reconstruction of Gender Roles 7: Rural Politics in a State Polity 8: Ideology 9: Implications for Anthropology Glossary of Agwagune Words References Index
SynopsisIn this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions? The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities. Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.
LC Classification NumberDT515.45.B5I93 1995
