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Economic development and social change : the modernization of village communities / edited by George Dalton.

By: Material type: TextSeries: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropologyPublication details: Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1971.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: vi, 664 pp. 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Economic development and social change.LOC classification:
  • HC59 .H12
Other classification:
  • 83.46
  • 306.3
Contents:
pt. 1. Primitive and peasant economies: before modernization: Preface, to The primitive economics of the New Zealand Maori / R.H. Tawney -- Tribal economics / Marshall Sahlins -- Lele economy compared with the Bushong [Africa] / Mary Douglas -- The normal surplus of subsistence agriculture [Africa] / W. Allan -- Customary systems of rewards in rural South India / Scarlett Epstein -- Between slavery and freedom / M.I. Finley -- Primitive feudalism and the feudalism of decay / Karl Polanyi -- Feudalism in Africa? / Jack Goody -- Are African cultivators to be called "peasants"? / L.A. Fallers -- Theoretical issues in economic anthropology / George Dalton -- pt. 2. Initial impacts and long-run consequences of colonialism: The destruction of Aboriginal culture and society: The Spanish in Mexico and Central America / Eric Wolf ; Colonialism and economic growth / Everett E. Hagen -- Land shortage, cash income, and new conflicts: Communal hostility to imposed social change in South Africa / M.A. Jaspan -- Dualism and foreign investment: The Dutch colonial period in Indonesia: agricultural involution / Clifford Geertz ; The distribution of gains between investing and borrowing countries / Hans Singer -- pt. 3. Modernization and development: theory and case studies: Mechanisms of change and adjustment to change / Neil J. Smelser -- The principle of circular and cumulative causation / Gunnar Myrdal -- Regional economic inequalities / Gunnar Myrdal -- Social structure and economic progress [Europe] / John E. Sawyer -- Rural economic organization [Europe] / P.A. Sorokin, et al. -- The agrarian origins of modern Japan / Thomas C. Smith -- Economic development and social change in South India / Scarlett Epstein -- A factor analysis of modernization in village India / Irma Adelman and George Dalton -- Vicos: a peasant hacienda community in Peru / Allan R. Holmberg -- Vicos: the interplay between power and wealth / Mario C. V�azquez -- Risk, uncertainty, and the subsistence farmer / Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. -- Smallholder agriculture in Eastern Nigeria / C. Davis Fogg -- Report on the industrialisation of the Gold Coast [Ghana] / W. Arthur Lewis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 619-651).

pt. 1. Primitive and peasant economies: before modernization: Preface, to The primitive economics of the New Zealand Maori / R.H. Tawney -- Tribal economics / Marshall Sahlins -- Lele economy compared with the Bushong [Africa] / Mary Douglas -- The normal surplus of subsistence agriculture [Africa] / W. Allan -- Customary systems of rewards in rural South India / Scarlett Epstein -- Between slavery and freedom / M.I. Finley -- Primitive feudalism and the feudalism of decay / Karl Polanyi -- Feudalism in Africa? / Jack Goody -- Are African cultivators to be called "peasants"? / L.A. Fallers -- Theoretical issues in economic anthropology / George Dalton -- pt. 2. Initial impacts and long-run consequences of colonialism: The destruction of Aboriginal culture and society: The Spanish in Mexico and Central America / Eric Wolf ; Colonialism and economic growth / Everett E. Hagen -- Land shortage, cash income, and new conflicts: Communal hostility to imposed social change in South Africa / M.A. Jaspan -- Dualism and foreign investment: The Dutch colonial period in Indonesia: agricultural involution / Clifford Geertz ; The distribution of gains between investing and borrowing countries / Hans Singer -- pt. 3. Modernization and development: theory and case studies: Mechanisms of change and adjustment to change / Neil J. Smelser -- The principle of circular and cumulative causation / Gunnar Myrdal -- Regional economic inequalities / Gunnar Myrdal -- Social structure and economic progress [Europe] / John E. Sawyer -- Rural economic organization [Europe] / P.A. Sorokin, et al. -- The agrarian origins of modern Japan / Thomas C. Smith -- Economic development and social change in South India / Scarlett Epstein -- A factor analysis of modernization in village India / Irma Adelman and George Dalton -- Vicos: a peasant hacienda community in Peru / Allan R. Holmberg -- Vicos: the interplay between power and wealth / Mario C. V�azquez -- Risk, uncertainty, and the subsistence farmer / Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. -- Smallholder agriculture in Eastern Nigeria / C. Davis Fogg -- Report on the industrialisation of the Gold Coast [Ghana] / W. Arthur Lewis.

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