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Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the government of the newly independent Senegal, imposed new systems of land tenure and cultivation on the Serer of Siin. Galvan's book is a painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous Western-style "rational" economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self-sustaining, society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and ultimately more productive model for change-a model Galvan calls "institutional syncretism."

Land tenure - Senegal - Sine-Saloum - History. --- Land tenure-- Senegal-- Sine-Saloum-- History. --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Business & Economics --- Land tenure --- Serer (African people) --- Acculturation --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Serers --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- History. --- Government relations. --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Sine-Saloum (Senegal) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Siin (Senegal) --- Siin und Saalum (Senegal) --- Kaolack (Senegal : Region) --- Fatick (Senegal : Region) --- History --- Government relations --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- academic. --- agriculture. --- change. --- colonial rulers. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- ecology. --- economics. --- ecosystem. --- ecosystems. --- environmentalism. --- environmentalist. --- land cultivation. --- land tenure. --- land use. --- productive agriculture. --- regional. --- rural community. --- rural land. --- rural society. --- scholarly. --- senegal. --- social change. --- social justice. --- social studies. --- society. --- sustainability. --- transformation.