Koenig, Dolores.

Innovation and individuality in African development : changing pr oduction strategies in rural Mali / Dolores Koenig, Tiâeman Diarra, and Moussa Sow with Ousmane Diarra ... [et al.]. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, c1998. - xix, 279 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. - Linking levels of analysis .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-272) and index.

Demystifying African farmers -- Innovation and change in Malian hist ory -- The contemporary context of rural production -- The study popula tion -- Access to agricultural resources -- Complementing crop producti on -- Negotiating new relationships -- Toward an improved anthropology of development.

0472108948 (acidfree paper)

97-045270


Agriculture and state--Mali.
Rural development.
Land settlement--Mali.

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