Name: The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria (en Inglés)
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Author: David Uru Uru Iyam
ISBN: 9780226388496

portada The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

David Uru Uru Iyam

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0226388492

ISBN13

9780226388496

N° edición

Categorías

Comunidades rurales

The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria (en Inglés)

David Uru Uru Iyam (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Broken Hoe: Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria (en Inglés)"

In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions? The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities. Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.