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A clash of paradigms : intervention, response and development in the South Pacific / Susan Maiava.
Lippincott Library HD2198.7 .M25 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maiava, Susan.
- Series:
- SOAS studies in development geography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cattle--Samoan Islands.
- Cattle.
- Agriculture and state--Samoan Islands.
- Agriculture and state.
- Agricultural development projects--Samoan Islands.
- Agricultural development projects.
- Samoan Islands.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]
- Contents:
- 2 Establishing the Theoretical Context 7
- Modernisation 7
- The Beginning of an Anti-Thesis: Liberal Modernisation 12
- The Third Paradigm 17
- People-Centred Development 17
- Populism: Spontaneous Development 21
- The Third Paradigm: An Appraisal 26
- Post-Modernism 28
- A Theory of Development for the Pacific: MIRAB 30
- The Return of Modernisation: Neo-liberalism 34
- 3 Development in Practice: Development Projects 37
- The Development Project 37
- The Project Cycle 38
- Planning for People-Centred Development 44
- Development as Cultural Interaction 50
- 4 Samoa, Cattle and Development: Cross-Cultural Interpretations 57
- Culture as Constraint: Interpretations of the Role of Samoan Culture in Development 57
- Interpretations of the Role of Samoan Culture in Development of the Smallholder Cattle Sector 68
- Culture as Motivation: The Emergence of an Anti-Thesis 72
- 5 Understanding Samoan Culture 77
- The Meaning of Culture 77
- The Importance of Family 79
- Rank, Status and Social Change 84
- Competition, Co-operation, Community and Contradictions 88
- Economic Values: Work, Income and Money; Distribution, Exchange and Obligation 89
- Fa'alavelave 92
- 6 Cattle in Samoan Culture: Fa'alavelave 99
- The Research: Asking the Right Questions 99
- In the Field 102
- A Case Study of a Funeral 106
- A Survey of Fa'alavelave 119
- Farmers' Thinking About Cattle in Fa'alavelave 129
- The Importance, Usefulness and Meaning of Contributing Cattle to Fa'alavelave 129
- The Social Context of Contributing Cattle to Fa'alavelave: Obligation, Motivation, Ambivalence and Change 132
- 7 Cattle in Samoan Society and Livelihood Systems: Farmers' Experience with Cattle 139
- The Experience of One Village 139
- Cattle and Samoan Society 144
- Cattle, Land Tenure and Social Change 151
- Cattle in the Rural Livelihood System 153
- Technical Issues and Farmer Innovation 157
- 8 The Success of Cattle Projects in Samoa: An Historical Perspective 167
- The History of Cattle and Cattle Projects in Samoa 168
- The Pioneer Phase 168
- The Rapid Expansion Phase 170
- Disillusionment 175
- The Turnaround 181
- The National Herd 181
- Success in the Smallholder Sector 182
- Success Found in This Research 184
- Other Measures of Success 189
- Explaining the Turnaround 190
- 9 Exploding the Myths 193
- Revisiting the Assumptions About Farmer Behaviour 193
- Exposing the Myths 197
- Locating this Research in Cattle Projects in Samoa and the Pacific 205
- The Findings of This Research 207
- Accounting for These Observations in Theory 212
- From Theory to Experience: What Really Happened 215
- A New Theory? 216
- Populism and Fundamental Needs 218
- Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions 222
- Appendix 1 The Survey of Smallholder Cattle Farmers 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 231-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754614328
- OCLC:
- 45314486
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