Product Description

In this text, the author, Arun Agrawal uses the story of the Raikas, a little-known group of migrant shepherds in western India, to re-examine scholarship on markets and exchange, local and state politics, and community and hierarchy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1384423 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Publisher
“A riveting combination of sophistication in formal theory, brilliant ethnography, and analytical imagination.”—James C. Scott, Yale University

“Beautifully researched and rigorously analyzed, this book will be of interest to economists, political scientists, and anthropologists,a s well as all who are concerned with the environment.”—Robert H. Bates, Harvard University

“This is a rare book. Not only does it give the reader an excellent indepth view of the life of the raikas, it also contributes to our theoretical understanding of how individuals in field settings overcome social dilemmas. Few books convey such rich theoretical and empirical understanding within the same covers.”—Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University

About the Author
Arun Agrawal is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.