Bewitching development witchcraft reinvention (9 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJames Howard Smith is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis.KlappentextPresents an account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropri.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In Bewitching Development, James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft.…