Indigenous Organizations and Development: (Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development)

Table of Contents:
Preface vii NORMAN UPHOFF Acknowledgement xii Introduction xiii PETER BLUNT AND D. MICHAEL WARREN PART 1 AFRICA 1. The drum speaks—Are we listening? Experiences in development with a traditional Gabra institution—The Yaa Galbo 1 B.J. LINQUIST WITH DAVID ADOLPH 2. Traditional settlement, cultural identity and rural development in the Transkei 7 PATRICK A. MCALLISTER 3. Hometown associations: Balancing local and extralocal interests in Nigerian communities 21 MICHAEL L. McNULTY AND MARK F. LAWRENCE 4. Indigenous organizations and development: The case of Ara, Nigeria 43 D. MICHAEL WARREN, REMIADEDOKUN AND AKINTOLA OMOLAOYE 5. The Ogbomoso Parapo: A case-study of an indigenous development association in Nigeria 50 G. O. KOLAWOLE 6. Community development associations and self-reliance: The case of Isalu Community Development Union, Iseyin, Nigeria 56 BOLANLE W. WAHAB 1. The importance of indigenous organizations to the sustainability of contemporary Yoruba strip-weaving industries in Iseyin, Nigeria 67 NORMA H. WOLFF AND BOLANLE W. WAHAB 8. Traditional leadership and community management in Northern Ghana 88 NANCY COSWAY AND STEVE A. ANANKUM 9. Indigenous healer associations and a South African AIDSprevention project 97 EDWARD C GREEN AND BONGIE ZOKWE vi Contents PART II INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT 10. History of an indigenous community management organization in Nepal 109 DURGA POKHREL AND ANTHONY B. J. WILLET 11. Building on the Panchayat: Using Jal Samitis in Uttar Pradesh 123 YOGESH KUMAR 12. Informal institutions of financial intermediation: Social value of Vishis, chit funds and self-help groups 132 TUSHAAR SHAH AND MICHAEL JOHNSON 13. Taking count of the depth of the ditches: Understanding local organization forms, their problems and strategic responses 143 NIDHI SRINIVAS PART III ASIA-PACIFIC Australia and New Zealand 14. Aboriginal agenda or agency agenda? Community-development planning projects in Australia 159 JACKIE WOLFE-KEDDIE 15. Yolngu rom: Indigenous knowledge in north Australia 184 IAN HUGHES 16. Community development among the New Zealand Maori: The Tainui case 193 TOON VAN MEIJL Canada 17. Indigenous organizations for development in the Canadian north: Native development corporations 214 LEO PAUL DANA China 18. The role of indigenous organizations in the rural development of China: A case-study of a non-farm productive activity 220 LI XIAOYUN, LI OU AND ZHOU SHENGKUN Indonesia 19. Using indigenous organizations from West Kalimantan 228 CAROL J. PIERCE COLFER, REED L. WADLEY AND ENIS WIDJANARTI Philippines 20. Personal networks and agricultural extension in the Philippines 239 RICARDO C. ARMONIA

About the Author :
From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government’s programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia. Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies.