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Poverty and Wealth in East Africa - A Conceptual History (Paperback)
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Poverty and Wealth in East Africa - A Conceptual History (Paperback)
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In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a
conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have
sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and
poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a
powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce
economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in
contexts of relative material equality between households, people
invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the
poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to
write this history for societies without written records before the
nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in
different eras using the methods of comparative historical
linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate
science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the
dynamism of people's thinking about poverty and wealth in East
Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of
the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and
social inequality in the region's deeper past.
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