The State Must Be Our Master of Fire : How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal /

Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the governmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Galvan, Dennis Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Land tenure.
Economic history.
Acculturation.
HISTORY > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Serer (Peuple d'Afrique) > Relations avec l'État.
Acculturation > Senegal > Case studies.
Serer (African people) > Government relations.
Land tenure > Senegal > Sine-Saloum > History.
Senegal > Sine-Saloum.
Senegal.
Sine-Saloum (Senegal) > Conditions economiques.
Sine-Saloum (Senegal) > Conditions sociales.
Sine-Saloum (Senegal) > Economic conditions.
Sine-Saloum (Senegal) > Social conditions.
Études de cas.
Case studies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Buying rope is a young man's job
  • The Serer of Siin
  • Tradition in the Siin
  • Land pawning as a response to the standardization of tenure
  • Two romanticizations
  • The king has come : now everything is ruined
  • Culturally sustainable development.

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