Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn white paperback, pictorial front- & backcover, large 8vo: viij, 322pp., Introduction, 15 contributions, notes, graphs, list of publications J.H.B. den Ouden. CONTENTS: 1. Land scarcity and processes of privatization among the Tojolabal in Chiapas, Mexico. Gemma van der Haar. 2. Kinship relations and land inheritance among the Luo of Western Kenya. Paul Hebinck and Niels Mango. 3. The burden of kinship: Transnational networks and the inheritance of land in a Mexican family. Monique Nuijten. 4. Liberalization and new struggles oiver belonging: Towards a recomposition of the village in Africa? Peter Geschiere. 5. One people, one chief: African chieftainship in the modern world. A case from Soutern Malawi. Jan Kees van Donge. 6. ‘ To smell the soil ‘: Images and new lifestyle issues in rural Mozambique. Carin Vijfhuizen. 7. Hearts and herds: The dynamics of kinship and livelihoods in a pastoral community in the Andes. Ann and Norman Long. 8. Life and rural livelihoods: Incest accusations, kinship and family enterprise in the Peruvian Andes. Alberto Arce. 9. ‘ Doing bisnis ‘: Social distance, kinship and exchange in the hihglands of Papua New Guinea. Flip van Helden. 10. General? Particular? No, simply growing and shrinking ! Towards a monist anthropology of firms. Gerard Verschoor. 11. Fulbe women’s livelihood in the Borgu region of Benin. Theophile Djeddjebi and Leo de Haan. 12. Farm and off-farm enterprises of four generations of Fon and Adja women compared, Benin ca. 1900-1990. Dorothea Wartena. 13. Development participation in Sri Lanka: An Arena of struggle between leaders and followers. Georg Frerks and Dirk van Dusseldorp. 14. Negotiating the meaning of organization: The importance of social network analysis. Dorothea Hilhorst. 15. Women and law in Mali. Marijke van den Engel and Gerti Hesseling. As new. Department of Social Sciences, Section Sociology of Rural Development.