Llamas Weavings Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon Of/Bolivia

by Kevin Healy

Book Overview

Bolivia, like most developing countries around the world, strove for decades to imitate Western and particularly U.S. methods of development, importing the latest technologies, institutions, crops, and livestock. Finally, beginning in the 1970s, faced with many striking instances of failure in the application of the North American modernization paradigm, diverse sectors of Bolivian civil society turned inward to rediscover their country's own multicultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268013268
• ISBN13: 9780268013264
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Not MIss

This is a valuable set of case studies on development projects that actually benefit the grassroots. Although set in Bolivia, many of the lessons apply to other parts of the developing world. The book is well written and would be a great text for a course in development studies.

it makes you feel good!

The intimate travel details and encounters with prospective project developers in Bolivia are revealed in this book. You read about the many projects that the IAF has sponsored, successful at times and not, it is great to know that these projects have been throughly researched by IAF employees. It makes you feel good to see U.S. dollars go into super positive grassroots projects. The projects included in this book are diverse and very intriguing. Highly recommended!