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Electronic Book

Author

Galvan, Dennis Charles.

Title The state must be our master of fire [electronic resource] : how peasants craft sustainable development in Senegal / Dennis C. Galvan.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xiv, 317 p. : maps.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Buying rope is now a young man's job -- The Serer of Siin -- Contested and enmeshing -- Land pawning as a response to the standardization of tenure -- Two romanticizations -- The king has come : now everything is ruined -- Culturally sustainable development.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Land tenure -- Senegal -- Sine-Saloum -- History.
	Serer (African people) -- Government relations.
	Acculturation -- Senegal -- Case studies.
	Sine-Saloum (Senegal) -- Social conditions.
	Sine-Saloum (Senegal) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0520227786 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0520235916 (pbk. : alk. paper)