Anthropology and Food Policy
Anthropology and Food Policy

Author: Della E. McMillan

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0820312878

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Starting from a base of anthropological fieldwork in particular societies and communities (in sub-Saharan East Africa, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, Malawi, and the Sudan), the authors utilize case studies to examine the meaning of their findings for the understanding needed for specific policy interventions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

African Art in Transit
African Art in Transit

Author: Christopher B. Steiner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-01-27

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521457521

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African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect so-called 'primitive' art in Europe and America is based on extensive field research among the art traders in Côte d'Ivoire. Steiner provides a lucid interpretation which reveals not only a complex economic network with its own internal logic and rules, but also an elaborate process of transcultural valuation and exchange. By focusing directly on the intermediaries in the African art trade, he unveils a critical new perspective on how symbolic codes and economic values are mediated in the context of shifting geographic and cultural domains. He questions conventional definitions of authenticity in African art by demonstrating how the categories 'authentic' and 'traditional' are continually redefined.

Benoit Revisited
Benoit Revisited

Author: Lisa M. Grobar

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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In the early 1970s, Emile Benoit shocked development economists by presenting positive cross-country correlations between military expenditures and economic growth rates in less developed countries. Skeptics have abounded, and Benoit's research has been much worked over, both conceptually and statistically. This paper reviews this debate. We conclude that Benoit's findings were aberrant: Most studies suggest that military spending does have an adverse impact on economic growth in developing countries, largely through its adverse effect on saving and investment.