The Broken Hoe

Cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria

By: David Uru Iyam

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Hardcover | 15 June 1995 | Edition Number 1

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In this study of the Biase, a small ethnic group living in Nigeria's Cross River State, David Uru Iyam attempts to resolve a long-standing controversy among development theorists: must Third World peoples adopt Western attitudes, practices, and technologies to improve their standard of living or are indigenous beliefs, technologies, and strategies better suited to local conditions?
The Biase today face social and economic pressures that seriously strain their ability to cope with the realities of modern Nigeria. Iyam, an anthropologist and a Biase, examines the relationship between culture and development as played out in projects in local communities.
Western technologies and beliefs alone cannot ensure economic growth and modernization, Iyam shows, and should not necessarily be imposed on poor rural groups who may not be prepared to incorporate them; neither, however, is it possible to recover indigenous coping strategies given the complexities of the postcolonial world. A successful development strategy, Iyam argues, needs to strengthen local managerial capacity, and he offers suggestions as to how this can be done in a range of cultural and social settings.

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Issues in Rural Development
The Biase of Southeastern Nigeria
Use of Environmental Resources
Managing the Environment
The Economy
Biase Social Organization and the Reconstruction of Gender Roles
Rural Politics in a State Polity
Ideology
Implications for Anthropology Glossary of Agwagune Words
References
Index
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