Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living...
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Author: Rhiannon Stephens
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Language: English
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Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History by Stephens, Rhiannon

Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History

$114.54

Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History

$114.54
Author: Rhiannon Stephens
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people's thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region's deeper past.

Author: Rhiannon Stephens
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/09/2022
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
ISBN: 9781478018827

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