03302oam 2200517 450 991080589630332120240228204153.01-4780-2451-810.1515/9781478024514(CKB)5590000000918549(OCoLC)1346150610(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103662(MiAaPQ)EBC30192616(Au-PeEL)EBL30192616(DE-B1597)642854(DE-B1597)97814780245141346150610(BiblioVault)org.bibliovault.9781478024514(EXLCZ)99559000000091854920220928d2022 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoverty and wealth in East Africa a conceptual history /Rhiannon Stephens1st ed.Durham :Duke University Press,2022.1 online resource (1 volume) illustrations ;1-4780-1882-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée -- Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth -- Overview of Climate Developments -- The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century -- Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century -- Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century -- Wealth, Poverty and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries."In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century in which she reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras, using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlain with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people's thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region's deeper past."--Provided by publisher.Development economicsUgandaEconomic conditionsUgandaSocial conditionsUgandaEconomic policyDevelopment economics.338.96761Stephens Rhiannon1977-1592461NcDNcDBOOK9910805896303321Poverty and wealth in East Africa3910283UNINA