AbstractsAnthropology

The organizational factor in the economic development of traditional and peasant societies.

by Gillian. Sankoff




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Anthropology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1965
Keywords: Antrhopology.; Peasants.; Rural development.
Record ID: 1534185
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118177.pdf


Abstract

In this thesis I shall consider the process of economic change in tribal and peasant societies, and show how traditional principles of social and economic organization within these societies are related to such change. I shall be aoncerned with how far "organization" may be treated as a factor in development apart from and in conjunction with such factors as "capital", "values", "innovation", etc. [...]