ISBN:
0-12-078880-2
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978-0-12-078880-4
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 378 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Studies in Anthropology (Academic Press) [23]
Keywords:
Wirtschaftsethnologie Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Anthropologie, angewandte
;
Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
;
Ländliches Gebiet
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Mexiko
;
Belize
Description / Table of Contents:
List of contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: development issues and economic anthropology, Peggy F. Barlett -- Part I: Theoretical issues and methodological perspectives -- Chapter 2. The limits of formalism in agricultural decision research, Allen Johnson -- Chapter 3. A theory of real-life choice: applications to agricultural decisions, Christina H. Gladwin -- Chapter 4. The statistical behavior approach: the choice between wage labor and cash cropping in rural Belize, Michael Chibnik -- Chapter 5. The attentive-preattentive distinction in agricultural decision making, Hugh Gladwin and Michael Murtaugh -- Chapter 6. Cost-benefit analysis: a test of alternative methodologies, Peggy F. Barlett -- Chapter 7. Risk and uncertainty in agricultural decision making, Frank Cancian -- Chapter 8. Forecasts, decisions, and the farmer's response to uncertain environments, Sutti Ortiz -- Chapter 9. Management style: a concept and a method for the analysis of family-operated agricultural enterprise, John W. Bennett -- Part II: Patterns of agricultural decisions -- Chapter 10. Agricultural business choices in a Mexican village, James M. Acheson -- Chapter 11. Agrarian reform and economic development: when is a landlord a client and a sharecropper his patron? Kaja Finkler -- Chapter 12: Stratification and decision making in the use of new agricultural technology, Billie R. Dewalt and Kathleen Musante Dewalt -- Part III. Agricultural development policy and programs -- Chapter 12. Decision making and policymaking in rural development, Sara S. Berry -- Chapter 14. Agricultural decision making in foreign assistance: an anthropological analysis, Allan Hoben -- Subject index
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