Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Cooperatives, Collectives, and Self-Management -- SECTION ONE: THE INTRODUCTION OF COOPERATIVES INTO PEASANT SOCIETIES -- Organized Cooperation and Spontaneous Cooperation in Africa (Niger...

Debates about development include not only statements but also actions and programmes, and constitute a discourse that both derives from the past and shapes the response to the future. The debates in Egypt and India are contrasting, along the three dimensions of conflict, cooperation and...