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Culture and public action
- Title
- Culture and public action / edited by Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press : Stanford Social Sciences, 2004.
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- Description
- xv, 442 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-414) and index.
- Contents
- Culture and public action: relationality, equality of agency, and development / Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton -- How does culture matter? / Amartya Sen -- The capacity to aspire: culture and the terms of recognition / Arjun Appadurai -- Traditional culture- let's hear no more about it / Mary Douglas -- Appendix to Douglas: cultural theory and development studies / Marco Verweij -- Cultural obstacles to economic development: often overstated, usually transitory / Timur Kuran -- Cultural goods are good for more than their economic value / Arjo Klamer -- The intellectual history of culture and development institutions / Lourdes Arizpe -- Culture, poverty, and external intervention / Sabina Alkire -- Participatory development: where culture creeps in / Anita Abraham and Jean-Philippe Platteau -- State policies and women's agency in China, the Republic of Korea, and India, 1950-2000: lessons from contrasting experiences / Monica Das Gupta ... [et al.] -- HIV/AIDS and culture: implications for policy / Carol Jenkins -- Political culture and development / Fernando Calderón and Alicia Szmukler -- Relief and an understanding of local knowledge: the case of Southern Sudan / Simon Harragin -- The Mayan movement and national culture in Guatemala / Shelton H. Davis -- Conclusion: implications of a cultural lens for public policy and development thought / Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-1321
- ISBN
- 0804747865 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804747873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004001629
- OCLC
- 54415319
- Title
- Culture and public action / edited by Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press : Stanford Social Sciences, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-414) and index.
- Added Author
- Rao, Vijayendra.Walton, Michael, 1953-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-1321