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Johan Pottier
Originally published in 1988, this book documents genealogical developments which, together with changes in agricultural production, religious ethic, politics, gender relations, patterns of solidarity and trade were local adjustments to…
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Throughout the 1980s there have been calls for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programmes. Practising Development is the first collection to…
Provides an account of food production and famine in the world in the late 1990s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists and other sources, this text offers an account of…
Johan Pottier (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes in 1994-1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world’s media. Journalists, diplomats and aid workers struggled to find a way to…
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Pottier shows how the post-genocide regime in Rwanda imposed their account of Central Africa’s crises upon international commentators, and explains the ideological underpinnings of this official narrative. He examines how…
This book examines the ethical and methodological issues that researchers working in conflict and other insecure environments regularly face. Based on in-depth research carried throughout Africa, the contributors discuss how…
This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. First of all how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it as it currently lacks disciplinary…
This text tells the story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. It aims for a total view of how…
This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.
