The Moral Basis of a Backward Society |
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User Review - thcson - LibraryThingI thought this book should have included more ethnographic narratives of individual villagers' lives. The author describes their mistrustful general ethos in clear terms, but the details he gives ... Read full review
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User Review - ben_a - LibraryThingGrim and revealing. I read it on my way out to vacation in Maui -- not an intended irony, but a significant one. The peasant story about the "3 answers" is an education in itself. Questions: 1. How is ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Impressions and Questions | 15 |
Some Usual Explanations | 33 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Moral Basis of a Backward Society Free Press paperbacks |
| Author | Edward C. Banfield |
| Contributor | University of Chicago. Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1958 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Apr 10, 2007 |
| Length | 204 pages |
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