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Iyam, David Uru.

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Getting off the ground: Cultural sources of underdevelopment in southeastern Nigeria.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Getting off the ground: Cultural sources of underdevelopment in southeastern Nigeria./
Author:	Iyam, David Uru.
Description:	445 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-12, Section: A, page: 4380.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9310891

Getting off the ground: Cultural sources of underdevelopment in southeastern Nigeria.
Iyam, David Uru.

Getting off the ground: Cultural sources of underdevelopment in southeastern Nigeria. - 445 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-12, Section: A, page: 4380.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.

The capability of rural communities to manage their institutions have been weakened by unfamiliar coping strategies often erroneously perceived as indigenous to them. New cultural patterns have reconfigured indigenous institutions making the people minimally able to manage their communities, to maintain rural socioeconomic relations, and to sustain advantageous conditions for economic growth. Such a breakdown in a culture's traditional problem-solving tool results in the entire system malfunctioning up to a degree at which it ceases to be what it was.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Cultural.

Getting off the ground: Cultural sources of underdevelopment in southeastern Nigeria.
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520 $a The capability of rural communities to manage their institutions have been weakened by unfamiliar coping strategies often erroneously perceived as indigenous to them. New cultural patterns have reconfigured indigenous institutions making the people minimally able to manage their communities, to maintain rural socioeconomic relations, and to sustain advantageous conditions for economic growth. Such a breakdown in a culture's traditional problem-solving tool results in the entire system malfunctioning up to a degree at which it ceases to be what it was.
520 $a I use this perspective to examine how new practices and behaviors among the Biase of Nigeria have replaced pre-existing cultural forms which made rural people more effective managers of their institutions. I suggest that reconfigured cultural patterns of behavior fit imperfectly in and subvert any effort to change the economic conditions of rural communities.
520 $a Earlier perspectives which attempted to fit Africans into the colonial framework by eliminating the "destructive" aspects of indigenous cultures were criticized as being Eurocentric because of the implication that existing institutions constrain development. This criticism is misplaced because of the misconception that the practices and behaviors that inform current configurations of rural institutions are indigenous to them. A misplaced antagonism is, therefore, directed at traditional peoples over cultural practices that are no longer theirs. The most important strategies the Biase used to manage their society a few decades ago have today become their most crippling institutions: their once effective market economy is today weakened by lack of male participation; beliefs that encouraged conformity with social rules have been tested, violated, and scorned by the young.
520 $a This work, thus focuses on how these changes affect the response of rural communities to economic growth initiative and how fulfilling the expectations of rural communities can best be approached so such communities can better control their own development agendas.
520 $a My data derive from 12 months of field work from January 1990 to January 1991. My sample population was drawn from Agwagune and Abini Biase communities. I drew a sample of 60 households from my census data of 706 households in the two communities. The resulting data provide important indicators for my argument.
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