Culture and Public Action

by Vijayendra Rao

Book Overview

How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and that cultural processes are neither inherently good nor bad and never static. Rather, they are contested and evolving, and can be a source of profound social and economic transformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747873
• ISBN13: 9780804747875
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Stanford Social Sciences
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"