A clash of paradigms
Subtitle: intervention, response, and development in the South Pacific
By: Susan Maiava.
Series: SOAS studies in development geography
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Cattle -- Samoan Islands.; Agriculture and state -- Samoan Islands.; Agricultural development projects -- Samoan Islands.; Samoan Islands -- Economic conditions.; Samoan Islands -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 231-249).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Tables; title: List of Figures; title: List of Plates; title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Acronyms and Abbreviations; title: Glossary of Samoan Words and Phrases; title: 1 Introduction; title: 2 Establishing the Theoretical Context; title: Modernisation; title: The Beginning of an Anti-Thesis: Liberal Modernisation; title: The Third Paradigm; title: People-Centred Development; title: Populism: Spontaneous Development; title: The Third Paradigm: An Appraisal; title: Post-Modernism; title: A Theory of Development for the Pacific: MIRAB; title: The Return of Moderisation: Neo-liberalism; title: 3 Development in Practice: Development Projects; title: The Development Project; title: The Project Cycle; title: Planning for People-Centred Development; title: Development as Cultural Interaction; title: 4 Samoa, Cattle and Development: Cross-Cultural Interpretations; title: Culture as Constraint: Interpretations of the Role of Samoan; title: Culture in Development; title: Interpretations of the Role of Samoan Culture in; title: Development of the Smallholder Cattle Sector; title: Culture as Motivation: The Emergence of an Anti-Thesis; title: 5 Understanding Samoan Culture; title: The Meaning of Culture; title: The Importance of Family; title: Rank, Status and Social Change; title: Competition, Co-operation, Community and Contradictions; title: Economic Values: Work, Income and Money; Distribution,; title: Exchange and Obligation; title: Fa 'alavelave; title: Conclusion; title: 6 Cattle in Samoan Culture: Fa'alavelave; title: The Research: Asking the Right Questions; title: In the Field; title: A Case Study of a Funeral; title: A Survey of Fa 'alavelave; title: Farmers' Thinking About Cattle in Fa 'alavelave; title: The Importance, Usefulness and Meaning of; title: Contributing Cattle to Fa'alavelave; title: The Social Context of Contributing Cattle to Fa 'alavelave:; title: Obligation, Motivation, Ambivalence and Change; title: Conclusion; title: 7 Cattle in Samoan Society and Livelihood Systems:; title: Farmers' Experience with Cattle; title: The Experience of One Village; title: Cattle and Samoan Society; title: Cattle, Land Tenure and Social Change; title: Cattle in the Rural Livelihood System; title: Technical Issues and Farmer Innovation; title: Conclusion; title: 8 The Success of Cattle Projects in Samoa:; title: An Historical Perspective; title: Introduction; title: The History of Cattle and Cattle Projects in Samoa; title: The Pioneer Phase; title: The Rapid Expansion Phase; title: Disillusionment; title: The Turnaround; title: The National Herd; title: Success in the Smallholder Sector; title: Success Found in This Research; title: Other Measures of Success; title: Explaining the Turnaround; title: Conclusion; title: 9 Exploding the Myths; title: Revisiting the Assumptions About Farmer Behaviour; title: Exposing the Myths; title: 10 Conclusion; title: Locating this Research in Cattle Projects in Samoa and the Pacific; title: The Findings of This Research; title: Accounting for These Observations in Theory; title: From Theory to Experience: What Really Happened; title: A New Theory?; title: Populism and Fundamental Needs; title: Conclusion: Asking the Right Questions; title: Appendix 1: The Survey of Smallholder Cattle Farmers; title: Appendix 2: Map of Samoa; title: Bibliography; title: Index.