The political economy of West African agriculture
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The political economy of West African agriculture
(Cambridge studies in social anthropology, no. 43)
Cambridge University Press, 1982
- : hard
- : pbk
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
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Bibliography: p. 174-207
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa. Commerce has grown impressively, but productivity remains low and capital accumulation is retarded. The reasons exist primarily in internal conditions shaping social institutions. Before, during, and since colonialism, the particular problems of these preindustrial states have shaped agricultural development more than the pressure supposedly emanating from the 'world system' of international capitalism. This book, following the classical economists as well as Marx and Lenin, argues for the necessity of rapid capitalist penetration into West African agriculture. The book is also a readable introduction to the history and ethnography of the region as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. West Africa's economic backwardness in anthropological perspective
- 3. The organization of agricultural production
- 4. The state in agricultural development
- 5. The market and capital in agricultural development
- 6. The social impact of commercial agriculture
- 7. What is to be done?
- Notes
- Select annotated bibliography
- Supplementary bibliography
- Index.
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