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Indigenous knowledge and education in Africa
Ezeanya-Esiobu, Chika - 2019
political independence in Africa, there has been an ongoing search for the kind of education that will create a class of … education to trigger the necessary transformation in Africa, it should be constructed on a strong foundation of learners …’ indigenous knowledge. The book presents a distinct and uncharted pathway for Africa to advance sustainably through home-grown and …
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Autoethnography and Organization Research : Reflections from Fieldwork in Palestine
Prasad, Ajnesh - 2019
As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Palestine, the author engages...
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Religion and Economics
Ergener, Resit - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Chapter 1. Defining Religion -- Chapter 2. An Illusion, A Capability, A Tendency; Formation of Groups and the Encounter with Gods -- Chapter 3. Exchange with Nature and with Gods: License to Exploit -- Chapter 4. Exchange amongst Humans; Divine Supervision -- Chapter 5. Exchange amongst Humans:...
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Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy : A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology
Fontefrancesco, Michele Filippo - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
anthropology and, in particular, in issues concerning local development in Europe and Eastern Africa. . …
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Konsumentenbilder als produktive Fiktionen : eine theoretische und ethnographische Untersuchung
Müller, Robert Caspar - 2019
Menschenbilder aus Antike und Neuzeit -- Menschenbilder in den modernen Wissenschaften -- Der Konsument als neue soziokulturelle Leitfigur -- Der souveräne, der naive und der aktive Konsument -- Extended Case Method und Mobile Ethnographie
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A fair share of tax : a fiscal anthropology of contemporary Sweden
Björklund Larsen, Lotta - 2018
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes that in order to understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law, psychological experiments and...
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Enterprise as a Carrier of Culture : An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration
Nakamaki, Hirochika (ed.); Hioki, Koichiro (ed.);  … - 2019
Part I. Religiosity, Spirituality, and Business -- Chapter 1. Corporate Society, the Foundation of Order, and “Quaker Codes” -- Chapter 2. Management of Miracles and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Study of Votive Offering in Europe and Japan -- Chapter 3. Spiritual Leadership: Background, Theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398459
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Informal Workers and Organized Action : Narratives From the Global South
Choudhary, Neetu - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America …
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Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit analysis
Ackers, Helen Louise; Ackers-Johnson, James; Chatwin, John - 2017
This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing...
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Agribusiness for economic growth in Africa : practical models for tackling poverty
Akuriba, Margaret Atosina; Akudugu, Mamudu Abunga; … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
growth critical for socioeconomic transformation of Africa. It is a must read for academics, practitioners, policymakers … Africa using agribusiness as the launchpad. The book emphasizes the urgent need for robust and inward-looking enabling policy …
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