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Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether (Paperback, New)
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Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether (Paperback, New)
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Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether is a story of original
research in China and Brazil as well as the circumstances that made
that work possible. Applied anthropology, rural economics,
agroforestry, natural and social history, and world travel are
combined to create an engaging account of the effort to better the
circumstances of the developing world's rural poor. The first part
of the book focuses on rural China and the indigenous knowledge of
the processes at work within the world's oldest system of timber
management and how that knowledge is being displaced by inferior
scientific systems of forest management. The critical role of
rights to private property in the conservation of rural resources,
a unique method to elicit ecological knowledge, the difficulties of
field access in China, and the varied challenges to living and
working in a poor mountain village are all recounted. The second
part addresses the tradition-bound "bush zone" of Brazil,
documenting the unexpected reasons for the region's continuing
poverty and a dramatic social transformation that may free the
rural poor from dependency and perhaps poverty itself. After the
failure of current "participatory" approaches in rural development
work, new methods were again needed to identify non-participants in
a rural assistance program and their reasons for not making use of
an easy opportunity to better their lives and the lives of their
families. Disturbing obstacles to self-reliance among the rural
poor created by academics, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and the
poor themselves are detailed. The author argues why preservation of
the world's rural villages is important and why such often
frustrating work is rewarding and worth the considerable effort.
The book closes with unexpected lessons drawn from a lifetime
beyond the end of the road. Humor, violence, friendship, and
betrayal lace an account of unusual and creatively original
research.
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