LEADER 03240nam 22004335 450 001 9910832903703321 005 20251103172029.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478092711 035 $a(CKB)5860000000471982 035 $a(DE-B1597)698179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478092711 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010204443 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000471982 100 $a20240826h20242022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPoverty and Wealth in East Africa $eA Conceptual History /$fRhiannon Stephens 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d[2024] 210 4$d2022 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 311 08$a9781478092711 311 08$a1478092718 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter one Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée --$tChapter two Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth --$tInterchapter Overview of Climate Developments --$tChapter three The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century --$tChapter four Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century --$tChapter five Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century --$tChapter six Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries --$tConclusion --$tAppendix: Reconstructed Vocabulary --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid 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. 606 $aDevelopment economics 606 $aHISTORY / Africa / East$2bisacsh 615 0$aDevelopment economics. 615 7$aHISTORY / Africa / East. 676 $a338.96761 700 $aStephens$b Rhiannon$f1977-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01592461 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910832903703321 996 $aPoverty and wealth in East Africa$93910283 997 $aUNINA