Anthropologists and economists have made persistent efforts to
identify economic features of rural tropical economies in the
simplest possible terms, in order to enhance their universality.
This work has resulted in the creation of a body of doctrine on
such matters as the causes of rural economic inequality and abysmal
poverty which has hardened the arteries of our thought. The
doctrine is far too generalised to have any practical utility; it
is ahistorical; and it usually involves the dangerous and false
belief that all cultivators in any particular community are apt to
have similar economic responses. So firm is this orthodoxy (which
has a wide political spectrum), so great the fear of the chaos
which would result from emphasising the significance of the
heterogeneity of socio-economic structures, that under-development
studies have become deadlocked - to the point that our ignorance is
constantly on the increase. The book represents a radical assault
on prevailing orthodoxy: it is an attempt to break the deadlock by
insisting on the prior need for the proper categorisation of the
main types of agrarian system in the tropical world, which are not
necessarily at all numerous.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 1982 |
First published: |
1982 |
Authors: |
Polly Hill
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
340 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-27102-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
General
|
LSN: |
0-521-27102-9 |
Barcode: |
9780521271028 |
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