Author: Christina H. Gladwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A Model of Farmers' Decisions to Adopt the Recommendations of Plan Puebla
Author: Christina H. Gladwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making
Author: Peggy F. Barlett
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483268411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development presents the impact of farmers' choices in agricultural production. This book discusses how individual decisions determine household profits and well-being, capital requirements, land use, and the adoption of technology. Organized into three parts encompassing 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the theoretical and methodological questions concerning the use of formal models in evaluating the alternatives open to farmers. This text then explores the patterns of agricultural choices within one rural community. Other chapters consider the implications of decision-making research for agricultural development policy and explore the decision-making context of aid programs. This book discusses as well the impacts of nonagricultural alternatives on agricultural decisions. The final chapter deals with various policy and development programs for agricultural development. This book is a valuable resource for economic anthropologists, historians, economists, agricultural economists, rural sociologists, psychologists, farmers, and research workers.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483268411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development presents the impact of farmers' choices in agricultural production. This book discusses how individual decisions determine household profits and well-being, capital requirements, land use, and the adoption of technology. Organized into three parts encompassing 14 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the theoretical and methodological questions concerning the use of formal models in evaluating the alternatives open to farmers. This text then explores the patterns of agricultural choices within one rural community. Other chapters consider the implications of decision-making research for agricultural development policy and explore the decision-making context of aid programs. This book discusses as well the impacts of nonagricultural alternatives on agricultural decisions. The final chapter deals with various policy and development programs for agricultural development. This book is a valuable resource for economic anthropologists, historians, economists, agricultural economists, rural sociologists, psychologists, farmers, and research workers.
Blueprints for Thinking
Author: Sarah L. Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521256056
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521256056
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Culture, Society, and Cognition
Author: David B. Kronenfeld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211483
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a system, and then elaborates a version of "cultural models" that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211483
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual system. Members of a cultural community share the system but not all of the system's content, making culture a system of parallel distributed cognition. This book presents such a system, and then elaborates a version of "cultural models" that relates actions to goals, values, emotional content, and context, and that allows both systematic generative capacity and systematic variation across cultural and subcultural groups. Such models are offered as the basic units of cultural action. Culture thus conceived is shown as a tool that people use rather than as something deeply internalized in their psyches.
The Role of Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists in Interdisciplinary Teams Developing Improved Food Production Technology
Author: Agribookstore/Winrock
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040646
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711040646
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Report of an Exploratory Workshop on the Role of Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists in Interdisciplinary Teams Developing Improved Food Production Technology
Author: International Rice Research Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Interdisciplinary development and transfer of postharvest technology at the International Potato Center; Social organization and small watershed development; Rice insect pest management technology and its transfer to small-scale farmers in the Philippines; A new reality: Western technology faces pastoralism in the Maasai Project; Socioeconomic use of aerial survey and intervention testing for interdisciplinary research; The role of a cognitive anthropologist in a farming systems program that has everything.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Interdisciplinary development and transfer of postharvest technology at the International Potato Center; Social organization and small watershed development; Rice insect pest management technology and its transfer to small-scale farmers in the Philippines; A new reality: Western technology faces pastoralism in the Maasai Project; Socioeconomic use of aerial survey and intervention testing for interdisciplinary research; The role of a cognitive anthropologist in a farming systems program that has everything.
Rural Development in Latin America
Author: Alain De Janvry
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Ethnobiology
Author: E. N. Anderson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111801586X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology The field of ethnobiology—the study of relationships between particular ethnic groups and their native plants and animals—has grown very rapidly in recent years, spawning numerous subfields. Ethnobiological research has produced a wide range of medicines, natural products, and new crops, as well as striking insights into human cognition, language, and environmental management behavior from prehistory to the present. This is the single authoritative source on ethnobiology, covering all aspects of the field as it is currently defined. Featuring contributions from experienced scholars and sanctioned by the Society of Ethnobiology, this concise, readable volume provides extensive coverage of ethical issues and practices as well as archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic approaches. Emphasizing basic principles and methodology, this unique textbook offers a balanced treatment of all the major subfields within ethnobiology, allowing students to begin guided research in any related area—from archaeoethnozoology to ethnomycology to agroecology. Each chapter includes a basic introduction to each topic, is written by a leading specialist in the specific area addressed, and comes with a full bibliography citing major works in the area. All chapters cover recent research, and many are new in approach; most chapters present unpublished or very recently published new research. Featured are clear, distinctive treatments of areas such as ethnozoology, linguistic ethnobiology, traditional education, ethnoecology, and indigenous perspectives. Methodology and ethical action are also covered up to current practice. Ethnobiology is a specialized textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students; it is suitable for advanced-level ethnobotany, ethnobiology, cultural and political ecology, and archaeologically related courses. Research institutes will also find this work valuable, as will any reader with an interest in ethnobiological fields.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111801586X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology The field of ethnobiology—the study of relationships between particular ethnic groups and their native plants and animals—has grown very rapidly in recent years, spawning numerous subfields. Ethnobiological research has produced a wide range of medicines, natural products, and new crops, as well as striking insights into human cognition, language, and environmental management behavior from prehistory to the present. This is the single authoritative source on ethnobiology, covering all aspects of the field as it is currently defined. Featuring contributions from experienced scholars and sanctioned by the Society of Ethnobiology, this concise, readable volume provides extensive coverage of ethical issues and practices as well as archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic approaches. Emphasizing basic principles and methodology, this unique textbook offers a balanced treatment of all the major subfields within ethnobiology, allowing students to begin guided research in any related area—from archaeoethnozoology to ethnomycology to agroecology. Each chapter includes a basic introduction to each topic, is written by a leading specialist in the specific area addressed, and comes with a full bibliography citing major works in the area. All chapters cover recent research, and many are new in approach; most chapters present unpublished or very recently published new research. Featured are clear, distinctive treatments of areas such as ethnozoology, linguistic ethnobiology, traditional education, ethnoecology, and indigenous perspectives. Methodology and ethical action are also covered up to current practice. Ethnobiology is a specialized textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students; it is suitable for advanced-level ethnobotany, ethnobiology, cultural and political ecology, and archaeologically related courses. Research institutes will also find this work valuable, as will any reader with an interest in ethnobiological fields.
Social Science Perspectives on Managing Agricultural Technology
Author:
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Rural Extension, Education and Training Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description