04133nam 2201045Ia 450 991078292000332120230207223506.01-282-35697-697866123569710-520-92942-X1-59734-919-410.1525/9780520929425(CKB)1000000000007558(EBL)224378(OCoLC)475931097(SSID)ssj0000250829(PQKBManifestationID)11239816(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250829(PQKBWorkID)10231869(PQKB)11635533(MiAaPQ)EBC224378(OCoLC)55749675(MdBmJHUP)muse30784(DE-B1597)519057(OCoLC)816342613(DE-B1597)9780520929425(Au-PeEL)EBL224378(CaPaEBR)ebr10058520(CaONFJC)MIL235697(EXLCZ)99100000000000755820030520d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe state must be our master of fire[electronic resource] how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal /Dennis C. GalvanBerkeley University of California Pressc20041 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22778-6 0-520-23591-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Buying rope is now a young man's job -- The Serer of Siin -- Contested and enmeshing -- Land pawning as a response to the standardization of tenure -- Two romanticizations -- The king has come : now everything is ruined -- Culturally sustainable development.Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change-a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism."Land tenureSenegalSine-SaloumHistorySerer (African people)Government relationsAcculturationSenegalCase studiesSine-Saloum (Senegal)Social conditionsSine-Saloum (Senegal)Economic conditionsacademic.agriculture.change.colonial rulers.colonial.colonialism.ecology.economics.ecosystem.ecosystems.environmentalism.environmentalist.land cultivation.land tenure.land use.productive agriculture.regional.rural community.rural land.rural society.scholarly.senegal.social change.social justice.social studies.society.sustainability.transformation.Land tenureHistory.Serer (African people)Government relations.Acculturation333.3/089/96321Galvan Dennis Charles1514215MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782920003321The state must be our master of fire3754126UNINA