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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139166232
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 471 pages)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Wissenssoziologie ; Magie ; Religion ; Afrika ; Africa / Religion ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Magie ; Afrika ; Wissenssoziologie ; Afrika ; Religion
    Abstract: Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139052467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 397 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Keywords: Weber, Max / 1864-1920 / Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max ; Weber, Max ; Sombart, Werner ; Evangelische Kirche ; Kapitalismus ; Religion ; Capitalism / Religious aspects / Protestant churches ; Religion and sociology ; Christian ethics ; Calvinism ; Protestant work ethic ; Wirtschaft ; Protestantismus ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 ; Protestantismus ; Wirtschaft ; Sombart, Werner 1863-1941 ; Kapitalismus ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
    Abstract: The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation
    Description / Table of Contents: The German theological sources and Protestant church politics / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The thesis before Weber : an archaeology / Paul Münch -- Max Weber, Protestantism, and the debate around 1900 / Thomas Nipperdey -- Weber the would-be-Englishman : anglophilia and family history / Guenther Roth -- Weber's historical concept of national identity / Harry Liebersohn -- Nietzsche's monastery for freer spirits and Weber's sect / Hubert Treiber -- Weber's ascetic practices of the self / Harvey S. Goldman -- The Protestant ethic versus the "new ethic" / Klaus Lichtblau -- The rise of capitalism : Weber versus Sombart / Hartmut Lehmann -- The longevity of the thesis : a critique of the critics / Malcolm H. MacKinnon
    Description / Table of Contents: The use and abuse of textual data / David Zaret -- Biographical evidence of predestination, covenant, and special providence / Kaspar von Greyerz -- The thing that would not die : notes on refutation / Guy Oakes -- Historical viability, sociological significance, and personal judgment / Gianfranco Poggi -- The historiography of continental Calvinism / Philip Benedict -- The Protestant ethic and the reality of capitalism in colonial America / James A. Henretta -- The economic ethics of the world religions / Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer -- "Meet me in St. Louis" : Troeltsch and Weber in America / Hans Rollmann
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511666759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 306.4/49/096
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    Keywords: Language planning / Africa ; Language policy / Africa ; Sprache ; Gründung ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Gründung ; Afrika ; Sprache ; Staat ; Gründung
    Abstract: Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa analyses the complex language scene in Africa today and asks whether this distinctive web of language use is symptomatic of the early stage of state construction. If so, one would expect that as each of these states develops there will be a rationalisation of language use and agreement on a common language within the country's borders. Alternately, Africa's language scene may be the result of a particular historical context of state construction, with the implication that political development will not lead to the one-state, one-language outcome typical of the idealised nation-state
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511520600
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 287 pages)
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    Keywords: Judentum ; Ethnicity / Israel ; Social classes / Israel ; Judaism / Israel ; Soziale Klasse ; Soziologie ; Religion ; Ethnizität ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Israel / Ethnic relations ; Israel ; Israel ; Ethnizität ; Religion ; Soziale Klasse ; Israel ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Soziologie ; Israel ; Ethnische Identität ; Sozialstruktur
    Abstract: This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 309 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 74
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Frau ; Durani (Afghanistan people) / Marriage customs and rites ; Families / Afghanistan ; Women / Afghanistan ; Eheschließung ; Durrānī ; Soziales System ; Islam ; Stamm ; Maduzai ; Familie ; Frau ; Afghanistan / Social life and customs ; Afghanistan ; Afghanistan ; Stamm ; Eheschließung ; Afghanistan ; Stamm ; Frau ; Afghanistan ; Islam ; Eheschließung ; Durrānī ; Soziales System ; Maduzai ; Eheschließung ; Maduzai ; Familie
    Abstract: Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender
    Description / Table of Contents: Personal background -- Comparative perspectives on marriage -- Regional background: the Durrani of Saripul -- Patriliny, gender and endogamy -- The Maduzai subtribe -- Household production and reproduction -- Brideprice and direct exchange -- Rituals of marriage -- Marriage choice -- The power of shame -- The marriages of Jahhi Adam's descendants -- Durrani marriage: conclusions
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 81
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    DDC: 306.85/094897
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    Keywords: Villages / Finland / Case studies ; Rural families / Finland / Case studies ; Kinship / Finland / Case studies ; Landwirtschaftlicher Familienbetrieb ; Finnland ; Vieki (Finland) / Rural conditions ; Finnland ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Finnland Ost ; Landwirtschaftlicher Familienbetrieb
    Abstract: Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Subjects treated include marriage and the family, work and mechanization, succession to farms, and the paradoxical combination of fierce individualism and co-operation. Two major themes of the book are the relation between law and custom, which is not always what it seems on the surface, and the complex interlocking of farm, family and the wider society
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  • 7
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    Oxford : Clarendon
    ISBN: 9780198201991 , 9780191675119 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 366 p. , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780191675119
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    Series Statement: Oxford historical monographs
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1829-1860 ; Protestantismus ; Antikatholizismus ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: A study of the anti-Catholic movement in 19th-century Britain. Catholic emancipation in 1829 was followed by a Protestant backlash, stimulated by the growth of the evangelical movement and of Catholicism, and the political endeavours of Irish and British Tories.
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511896637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages)
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    Keywords: Jains / India / Congresses ; Jaina sociology / Congresses ; Jainismus ; Indien ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Jainismus
    Abstract: The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian Society and religion out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society addresses the sociology of the Jains and discusses the notion of the 'community' based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection is an important theoretical addition to the study of Indian society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar interested in this little-known but highly influential social group
    Description / Table of Contents: Jains as a community : a position paper / Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey -- Jain ideals and Jain identity / Michael Carrithers -- Somadeva Suri and the question of Jain identity / Mukund Lath -- The role of the layman according to the Jain canon / K.R. Norman -- Women and the reproduction of the Jain community / Josephine Reynell -- Local Jain communities / Caroline Humphrey -- The Jain merchant castes of Rajasthan : some aspects of the management of social identity in a market town / Christine M. Cottam Ellis -- Jain shopkeepers and moneylenders : rural informal credit networks in south Rajasthan / J. Howard M. Jones -- A study of Jains in a Rajasthan town / N.K. Singhi -- Jains in the Indian world / Michael Carrithers -- The Digambara Jain warrior / Paul Dundas -- Is there a popular Jainism? / Padmanabh Jaini -- Fairs and miracles : at the boundaries of the Jain community in Rajasthan ; New Jain institutions in India and beyond / Caroline Humphrey
    Description / Table of Contents: Reform movements among Jains in modern India / Vilas Sangave -- Orthodoxy and dissent : varieties of religious belief among immigrant Gujariti Jains in Britain / Marcus Banks -- The foundations of community among southern Digambar Jains : an essay on rhetoric and experience / Michael Carrithers
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521102
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 78
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Berti (African people) ; Muslims / Sudan ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion ; Sudan / Social life and customs ; Berti ; Sozialstruktur ; Berti ; Religion
    Abstract: Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local, popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, but Professor Holy shows that the customary rituals constitute an integral part of the religious system of the Berti. Carefully analysing the symbolic statements made in Berti rituals, Professor Holy demonstrates that the distinction between the two classes of rituals is an expression of the gender relationships characteristic of the society. He also examines the social distribution of knowledge about Islam, and explains the role of the religious schools in sustaining religious ideas. The work is not only an ethnographic study of ritual, belief and gender in an African society. It also makes a significant contribution to current anthropological discussion of the interpretation and meaning of rituals and symbols
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780511558009
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 207 pages)
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    Keywords: Peasants / Colombia ; Households / Colombia ; Economic anthropology / Colombia ; Subsistence economy / Colombia ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Indianer ; Landwirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Colombia / Rural conditions ; Kolumbien ; Kolumbien ; Landwirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Indianer ; Kolumbien ; Indianer ; Subsistenzwirtschaft
    Abstract: Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. In their view, the material practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior European fold conversations about the house. The house and the corporation have been the principal modes of material organization in Western life: the former is older, but the latter now predominates. The authors suggest, through use of the Colombian conversations, that textualists of the past transformed and inscribed similar folk voices for their emerging theories of the corporation and the market. They argue that economic knowledge is not simply the product of a scientific community but is often appropriated from folk practices. By situating the knowledge gained from fieldwork within their own traditions, and by using that knowledge to reflect upon the origins of contemporary wisdom, the book implicates the modern-day ethnographer, rural folk, and economist as participants in a long conversation
    Description / Table of Contents: Conversations -- The strength of the earth -- The house -- The base -- The advance and the increase -- Work for the house -- Remainders -- The house and the market -- Making savings -- From house to corps
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511522239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 399 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in historical geography 16
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1530-1830 ; Geschichte 1493-1850 ; Geschichte 1550-1850 ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Migration, Internal / America / History ; Migration, Internal / Colonies / Spain / History ; Binnenwanderung ; Migration ; Amerika ; Spanien ; Spain / Colonies / America / Population / History ; Lateinamerika ; Hispanoamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Hispanoamerika ; Binnenwanderung ; Geschichte 1530-1830 ; Lateinamerika ; Migration ; Geschichte 1493-1850 ; Hispanoamerika ; Migration ; Geschichte 1550-1850
    Abstract: In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, the studies will attract the attention of all Latin American specialists. They provide conclusive evidence of the ubiquity of migration in the early modern period, challenging views of immobile peasants held in the grip of static colonialism. They show that to migrate was one of the most important means of coping with Spanish colonialism. The essays are written from a multi-disciplinary perspective and thus provide data and interpretations that are novel and represent important contributions to colonial Latin American studies. They address the basic questions of who migrated, why did they migrate, how can one interpret migration fields, what role did economic opportunity or ecological conditions play, and not least, what was the impact of migrants on non-migrant communities in both rural and urban areas. The picture that emerges is one of colonial Spanish America in continual flux: spatial mobility was no less pronounced than social/racial change
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America / David J. Robinson -- Indian migration and community formation : an analysis of congregacíon in colonial Guatemala / George Lovell and William R. Swezey -- Migration in colonial Peru : an overview / Noble David Cook -- Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century / Brian Evans -- " ... residente en esa ciudad ..." : urban migrants in colonial Cuzco / Ann Wightman -- Frontier workers and social change : Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century / Ann Zulawski -- Student migration to colonial urban centers : Guadalajara and Lima / Carmen Castañeda -- Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico / Michael M. Swann -- Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649-1749 / Elsa Malvido
    Description / Table of Contents: Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico / John Kicza -- Marriage, migration, and settling down : Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770-1788 / Robert McCaa -- Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico / Rodney Watson -- Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700-1850 / Hector Pérez Brignoli -- Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes / Edda O. Samudio A. -- Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito : crown manipulation and local co-optation / Karen Powers
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511529917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 530 pages)
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    Keywords: Human ecology / Congresses ; Biotic communities / Congresses ; Ökologie ; Ökosystem ; Biozönose ; Umweltschaden ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Ökosystem ; Umweltschaden ; Biozönose ; Umweltschaden ; Ökologie
    Abstract: Life occurs, as far as we know, only as part of the earthly biosphere. Yet the earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis that is leading not only to the most rapid loss of species in the last 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes in the structure and function of natural communities. This disturbance, unfortunately, is the result of human carelessness in the name of advancing civilisation. As our technologies and societies continue to improve and grow, we remove ourselves more and more from our natural habitat; as a consequence, we destroy countless numbers of species of every style and complexity. To identify and begin rectifying this dangerous situation, a group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence
    Description / Table of Contents: The earth under stress : a transition to climatic instability raises questions about patterns of impoverishment / George M. Woodwell -- The experimental impoverishment of natural communities : effects of ionizing radiation on plant communities, 1961-1976 / George M. Woodwell and Richard A. Houghton -- Air pollution and temperate forests : creeping degradation / F. Herbert Bormann -- The long-term effects of air pollutants on lichen communities in Europe and North America / D.L. Hawksworth -- Biotic impoverishment in Northern peatlands / Eville Gorham -- Climatic change and the survival of forest species / Margaret Bryan Davis -- The atmosphere and the future of the biosphere : points of interactive disturbance / Michael Oppenheimer
    Description / Table of Contents: The restoration of Nonsuch Island as a living museum of Bermuda's precolonial terrestrial biome / David B. Wingate -- Patterns of impoverishment in natural communities : case history studies in forest ecosystems : New Zealand / A.F. Mark and G.D. McSweeney -- Changes in the eucalypt forests of Australia as a result of human disturbance / R.L. Specht -- Impoverishment in Pacific Island forests / Dieter Mueller-Dombois -- Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Incentives for sustainable forest management / Robert Repetto -- Changes in the Mediterranean vegetation of Israel in response to human habitation and land use / Zev Naveh and Pua Kutiel
    Description / Table of Contents: Bromus tectorum, a biotic cause of ecosystem impoverishment in the Great Basin / W.D. Billings -- Detecting early signs of regional air-pollution injury to coastal sage scrub / Walter E. Westman -- Arctic ecosystems : patterns of change in response to disturbance / L.C. Bliss -- Changes in a Red Sea coral community structure : a long-term case history study / Y. Loya -- Are deep-sea communities resilient? / J. Frederick Grassle, Nancy J. Maciolek, and James A. Blake -- Species dominance : diversity patterns in oceanic communities / John A. McGowan -- Natural and anthropogenically imposed limitations to biotic richness in fresh waters / David W. Schindler -- Human impacts on the South Florida wetlands : the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp / William A. Niering
    Description / Table of Contents: The impoverishment of aquatic communities by smelter activities near Sudbury, Canada / N.D. Yan and P.M. Welbourn -- Biotic impoverishment : effects of anthropogenic stress / John Cairns, Jr., and James R. Pratt -- Steps toward sustainability / J. Gustave Speth -- A reaction from a multitude / Donella H. Meadows
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511527531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 383 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American studies 69
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    Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaft ; Elite (Social sciences) / Brazil / Juazeiro (Bahia) ; Capitalism / Brazil / Juazeiro (Bahia) ; Elite (Social sciences) / Brazil / Petrolina (Pernambuco) ; Capitalism / Brazil / Petrolina (Pernambuco) ; Oberschicht ; Wirtschaft ; Politische Elite ; Elite ; Brasilien ; Juazeiro (Bahia, Brazil) / Economic conditions ; Petrolina (Pernambuco, Brazil) / Economic conditions ; Juazeiro ; Petrolina ; Brasilien ; Juazeiro ; Politische Elite ; Wirtschaft ; Petrolina ; Politische Elite ; Wirtschaft ; Petrolina ; Oberschicht ; Brasilien Nordost ; Oberschicht ; Brasilien Nordost ; Elite ; Juazeiro ; Oberschicht
    Abstract: This case study of the structure of power and ruling-class domination in the heart of the sertão of Northeast Brazil is based upon six field trips over a period of fifteen years. Analysis of the political economy of Juazeiro, Bahia, and Petrolina, Pernambuco - two contiguous towns along the São Francisco River - focuses on the history of patriarchal families, ruling class, and patrimonial governments. Family dominance is related to the rise of the Coelhos in Petrolina and the decline of the Vianas in Juazeiro. Agressive tactics and links to Recife allowed the Coelhos to expand and assume control over most commerce in Petrolina and neighbouring municipalities to Juazeiro. In both situations the intervention of the state in the region, usually bolstered by international credits, affected traditional standards of living. The construction of the Sobradinho Dam, for example, brought problems for small farmers along the banks of the São Francisco who could no longer count on the natural flow of river water. State policy also favored corporations to the detriment of small producers on cooperative farms
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