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Michael Walton - Culture and Public Action - 9780804747868 - V9780804747868
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Culture and Public Action

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Description for Culture and Public Action Hardback. Issues are examined in an inter-disciplinary dialogue between distinguished anthropologists and economists and cover community development, famine relief, fundamentalism, HIV-AIDS, discrimination and heritage. Editor(s): Walton, Michael; Rao, Vijayendra. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFS; JHMC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 794.

How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and that cultural processes are neither inherently good nor bad and never static. Rather, they are contested and evolving, and can be a source of profound social and economic transformation through their influence on aspirations and collective action; yet they can also be exploitative, exclusionary, and can lead to inequality.

Culture and Public Action includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804747868
SKU
V9780804747868
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Michael Walton
Vijayendra Rao is senior economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Michael Walton is adviser on poverty reduction and human development in the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank.

Reviews for Culture and Public Action
"The observation that cultural norms affect economic development has been made repeatedly, yet it has been very hard to use it effectively, whether for policy or for prediction. The essays in this volume present authoritatively the present state of knowledge and point out new aspects which hold out the prospect of greater usefulness."—Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, and Winner of the ... Read more

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