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I. RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. Barker, Jonathan. "Stability and stagnation: the state in Senegal,"
Canadian Journal of African Studies, 11(1) 1977, pp. 23-42.
Author sets forth the thesis that Senegal's "political
stability in the context of economic stagnation" is maintained
by the way political energies are controlled and channelled in
rural Senegal. Presents an analysis of rural underdeveiopment
in the colonial period and the politics of rural reform in the
post-colonial period. Change in the rural area is seen as a
function of taxation and growing tersion between the state
organizations and the peasantry.
2. Behrman, Lucy Creevy. "Muslim politics and development in Senegal,"
Journal of Modern African Studies, 15(2) June 1977, pp. 261-277.
Reassessment of the influence of the Muslim brotherhoods
on politics in Senegal, from the perspective of the development
process. Looks at the fall in groundnut production, the basis
of the political and economic power of the marabouts. The
marabouts' resistance to certain development programs, specifically
health programs, leads the author to conclude that
"modernization" has been slowed in those areas where the religious
leaders are strongest. Since 1960, the position of the
marabout as the intermediary between political leaders and the
rural communities remains fundamentally the same.
3. Gastellu, J.M. "L'Absence de differentiation economique en pays Serer."
In: Essais sur la Production de Formations Sociales Dominees,
pp. 25-38. Paris: O.R.S.T.O.M., 1977 (Travaux et Documents
No. 64).
Examination of the extension of groundnut cultivation into
the Serer of Baol area at the beginning of the century. The
cultivation of groundnuts integrated the region into the global
economy, but it has not resulted in economic differentiation
within the area because the ecology of the region, the internal
organization of Serer society and the history of the contacts
with the outside world.
4. Hadj, A. Les Innovations Agricoles et les Problemes Demographiques
dans le sud Saloum: Etude de cas dans la Communaute Rurale de
Keur Saloum Diane. Dakar: IDEP, 1977, 50 p.
This study attempts to relate changes in land use and
production systems to social change among the communities
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