LEADER 03302oam 2200517 450 001 9910805896303321 005 20240228204153.0 010 $a1-4780-2451-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478024514 035 $a(CKB)5590000000918549 035 $a(OCoLC)1346150610 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30192616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30192616 035 $a(DE-B1597)642854 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478024514 035 $a1346150610 035 $a(BiblioVault)org.bibliovault.9781478024514 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000918549 100 $a20220928d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty and wealth in East Africa $ea conceptual history /$fRhiannon Stephens 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (1 volume) $cillustrations ; 311 $a1-4780-1882-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMethodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Dure?e -- 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. 330 $a"In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century in which she reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras, using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlain with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people's thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region's deeper past."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDevelopment economics 607 $aUganda$xEconomic conditions 607 $aUganda$xSocial conditions 607 $aUganda$xEconomic policy 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 676 $a338.96761 700 $aStephens$b Rhiannon$f1977-$01592461 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910805896303321 996 $aPoverty and wealth in East Africa$93910283 997 $aUNINA