Innovation and Individuality in African Development: Changing Production Strategies in Rural Mali

by Tieman Diarra, Dolores Koenig, Moussa Sow

This book contributes to debates on how to improve development alternatives in West Africa, from the distinctive approach of anthropology--the analysis of local systems. Until now, theoretical frameworks for approaching African development have tended to overemphasize the structural factors that constrain development possibilities (including the colonial past and contemporary political-economic dependency). In Innovation and Individuality in African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108948
• ISBN13: 9780472108947
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"