Environmental and occupational health problems health cannot be understood through purely medical and epidemiological analyses, the social forces affecting biologically adaptive behaviour must also be analyzed. Research on the optical economy of health needs to generate an ethnology of community...

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...