Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate
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“Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate will be of great interest to scholars, students, and development practitioners…. [Healey’s] work examines several areas of social and economic activity and delves into a broad range of issues relevant to the understanding and pursuit of local development initiatives in Latin America and, indeed, many other parts of the world … an admirable and highly informative work.” —Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Bolivia, like most developing countries around the world, strove for decades to imitate Western and particularly U.S. methods of development, importing the latest technologies, institutions, crops, and livestock. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 518
- ISBN
- 9780268088187
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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“Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate will be of great interest to scholars, students, and development practitioners…. [Healey’s] work examines several areas of social and economic activity and delves into a broad range of issues relevant to the understanding and pursuit of local development initiatives in Latin America and, indeed, many other parts of the world … an admirable and highly informative work.” —Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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“Kevin Healy’s book … provides both insight and inspiration for anyone concerned with development where people matter.” —Native Americas
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“Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia is the story of Bolivian rural development and cultural change. Contains a history of anti-indigenous discrimination and narratives of nine development strategies.” —Cultural Survival Quarterly
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“[F]ascinating book on multicultural grassroots indigenous development initiatives in the Andes and Amazon regions of Bolivia.” —Human Rights Quarterly
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“This book is an inspiring and personal account of over thirty years in the community development trenches by someone who was by turns, a Peace Corps volunteer, a PhD researcher, and now for many years a Foundation representative for Bolivia for the Inter-American Foundation.” —Mountain Research and Development
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“Kevin Healy’s book tells us how they did it and provides both insight and inspiration for anyone concerned with development as if people mattered.” —Grassroots Development, Journal of the Inter-American Foundation
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“[A]n important corrective to recent development debates. Healy’s impressive work indicates what is possible, and is, therefore, a political contribution in the best sense of the term.” —American Anthropologist
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