L Cliggett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Cliggett |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cliggett |
| SIGNATURE | CLIGGETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1261-6625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Diary as data, diary as document
2020). Diary as data, diary as document. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 50-53
Rivers and roads
The construction of Kariba Dam in 1958 ignited a legacy of livelihood insecurity and chronic liminality that reverberated through subsequent generations. A community under one chief was split into two marginal resettlement sites more than 200 km apart. Sixty years after the dam's construction, and following a series of cyclical shifts between access to and alienation from international development programming, the World Bank has returned to initi…
Social and Political Economy
Most humans grow up in family groups of some sort and therefore get basic training in working together, sharing, and identifying as a member of a collective with a group identity. This capacity to belong seems very basic to many, a "natural" characteristic of the species. The social exchange theory used by game theorists tries to show that individual maximizing leads people to form social groups as a rational solution to real-world economic probl…
Economic Anthropology An Undisciplined Discipline
This chapter describes the early history of economic anthropology and economic philosophy. It shows how the formalist-substantivist debate, once the centerpiece of economic anthropology, has now become an obstacle instead of an inspiration. The field needs to move beyond the debate and ask more sophisticated questions. Economists, in the meantime, mostly ignored anthropology and went on with the business of advising politicians on how to run the …
Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics
This chapter outlines the intellectual history of the effort to build economics starting from the rational individual. The goal is to give a fair and balanced view of the dominant perspective in modern Western economics, to explain some of its results and conclusions, and to question why it has achieved such wide acceptance and power in the world. The chapter contains some discussion of the internal criticism of Western economics by people seekin…
The Moral Human Cultural Economics
The newspapers and magazines in the United States are full of discussions about "family values" and the collapse of public morality. People in small towns across America perceive that there is increasing family violence, teenage pregnancy, drunk driving, and handguns in the high schools. Many economists have no trouble accepting the general proposition that culture shapes human values, since economists do not pretend to explain where values come …
Conclusions Complex Economic Human Beings
In 1982, Richard Wilk began working with another anthropologist on an ethnographic project among an exotic tribe: middle-class suburbanites in Santa Cruz County, northern California. The United States was then, as now, highly dependent on foreign oil, and public utilities could no longer afford to build new nuclear power plants. The authors present fair and balanced views of three fundamentally different approaches to human behavior, arguing that…
Gifts and Exchange
This chapter offers a history of how anthropologists have looked at economic systems over time, and provides a framework-the three paradigms-for understanding how ideas of the economy connect with models of human nature. It examines that the gift giving is a good way to see all the various aspects of human nature in action at one time because gifts can be simultaneously understood as rational exchange, as a way to build political and social relat…
Economics and the Problem of Human Nature
This chapter describes that the controversy in economic anthropology has revolved around the problem of defining "economic" behavior and "the economy" as an objective set of activities and objects. It explores the debates and disagreements to expose the most basic "bedrock" positions. The chapter suggests that neither the formalist-substantivist debate nor the later theoretical trends in the discipline have generally asked the right questions. It…
The Gift of Volunteering
Foreign aid to southern Africa has triggered the growth of a nonprofit sector that increasingly provides welfare and social support for needy populations. However, largely absent from research on this sector are substantive analyses of the contribution of voluntarism and interpersonal exchange to broader welfare development and social cohesion. This paper employs theories of gift exchange to analyze volunteer practices and localized interpretatio…
Economies and Cultures
This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, including Vietnam, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. It identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision
How the Commons Was Changed
A review of The Contested Floodplain: Institutional Change of the Commons in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. By Tobias Haller. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013
Access, Alienation, and the Production of Chronic Liminality
This article examines several decades of cyclical shifts in the political ecology of a Zambian national park buffer zone, where Gwembe Tonga migrants have pioneered land for ambitious livelihood dreams, while repeatedly encountering challenges from the government, development programs, and host populations. The buffer zone is a marginal space where people, land, and animals come together at different moments in time and in different constellation…
Componentes Sociais Da Migração
As suposições comuns atribuem causas econômicas e ambientais às decisões de migração. Este trabalho revela a importância das estruturas do poder local - ao nível da comunidade e da família - para entender a migração. São examinados os processos migratórios na Província Sul da Zâmbia por meio do uso de informações coletadas de dois projetos de pesquisa qualitativa. Até recentemente, quando a seca e as doenças bovinas começaram a devastar a área, a…
Crimes Against the Future
Throughout the continent of Africa, employment in the formal sector has been a much coveted position, offering what people hope will be livelihood security; however, with pressures from international financial institutions and current economic upheaval, formal sector wages are increasingly insufficient to support individuals and families. This article presents preliminary data from an ethnographic study of teachers' livelihoods, documenting the r…
Migration Following Resettlement of the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia
In 1958, 57,000 Gwembe Tonga people were forcibly relocated by a large-scale hydroelectric development project. The land on which they were resettled was insufficient to sustain their livelihoods, and many later chose to migrate to a frontier zone north and west of the Gwembe Valley to secure additional land for farming. Guided by human adaptability theory, we use child growth as a measure of success of the migration strategy, and find that in 20…
Lunda Friendships (Friends for Life, Friends for Death)
Child growth as a measure of livelihood security
This article outlines an approach to the study of child growth and development in adverse environments that utilizes growth to measure the success of the human/environment interaction. This type of biocultural, human adaptability perspective focuses on within group variation to gain an understanding of the differential ability of households to negotiate opportunities and constraints in the ecological/social/cultural environment. As an example, we…
Promoting Multi-methods Research
The experience of migration includes costs and benefits to migrants and sending communities. In the tradition of a “letters” type discussion, this paper presents a synthesis of recent work from a longitudinal study from Zambia, Africa that used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the experience and outcomes of migration among the Gwembe Tonga. In this ethnographic study, we argue that including anthropometric methods in migration studies enha…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Remitting the gift
This article brings together anthropological theories of gift exchange and ethnographic data on migrant gifting (‘remitting’) in order to understand the core of investing in social relations through remitting practices. Migration literature from throughout the developing world documents important patterns of remitting that furthers our understanding of how migrants' earnings help rural investment. In contrast to the majority of migration literatu…
Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity
This article highlights the strategic nature of remittances in Zambian migration. Zambian migrants usually give only small gifts to their home-based relatives, not the large sums of money or goods used for investment that is documented in the literature on remitting elsewhere. In a case like Zambia, where so little surplus cash exists and the diversion of cash or other resources can have great material costs for the giver, why do Zambian migrants…
Survival strategies of the elderly in Gwembe Valley, Zambia
Carrying Capacity's New Guise
Current public debates about the environment often assume a clear relationship between resource availability and population growth: more people mean fewer resources. Over the past three decades, scholars in the social and natural sciences have disassembled the notion of carrying capacity to demonstrate that relationships between humans and their ecosystems are more open, fl uid, and complex than the concept allows. Despite scholarly recognition o…
Economies and Cultures
This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, including Vietnam, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. It identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision
Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity
This article highlights the strategic nature of remittances in Zambian migration. Zambian migrants usually give only small gifts to their home-based relatives, not the large sums of money or goods used for investment that is documented in the literature on remitting elsewhere. In a case like Zambia, where so little surplus cash exists and the diversion of cash or other resources can have great material costs for the giver, why do Zambian migrants…
Remitting the gift
This article brings together anthropological theories of gift exchange and ethnographic data on migrant gifting (‘remitting’) in order to understand the core of investing in social relations through remitting practices. Migration literature from throughout the developing world documents important patterns of remitting that furthers our understanding of how migrants' earnings help rural investment. In contrast to the majority of migration literatu…
Survival strategies of the elderly in Gwembe Valley, Zambia
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Rivers and roads
The construction of Kariba Dam in 1958 ignited a legacy of livelihood insecurity and chronic liminality that reverberated through subsequent generations. A community under one chief was split into two marginal resettlement sites more than 200 km apart. Sixty years after the dam's construction, and following a series of cyclical shifts between access to and alienation from international development programming, the World Bank has returned to initi…
Carrying Capacity's New Guise
Current public debates about the environment often assume a clear relationship between resource availability and population growth: more people mean fewer resources. Over the past three decades, scholars in the social and natural sciences have disassembled the notion of carrying capacity to demonstrate that relationships between humans and their ecosystems are more open, fl uid, and complex than the concept allows. Despite scholarly recognition o…
Keeping House In Lusaka
Keeping House In Lusaka. KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xii. 228 pp., plates, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index
Social Components of Migration
Common assumptions attribute migration decisions to economic and environmental causes. This paper reveals the importance of local power structures—at community and household levels—in understanding migration. It examines migration processes in Zambia's Southern Province using data collected from two qualitative research projects. Until recently, when droughts and cattle diseases began to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal …
Survival strategies of the elderly in Gwembe Valley, Zambia
Carrying Capacity's New Guise
Current public debates about the environment often assume a clear relationship between resource availability and population growth: more people mean fewer resources. Over the past three decades, scholars in the social and natural sciences have disassembled the notion of carrying capacity to demonstrate that relationships between humans and their ecosystems are more open, fl uid, and complex than the concept allows. Despite scholarly recognition o…
Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity
This article highlights the strategic nature of remittances in Zambian migration. Zambian migrants usually give only small gifts to their home-based relatives, not the large sums of money or goods used for investment that is documented in the literature on remitting elsewhere. In a case like Zambia, where so little surplus cash exists and the diversion of cash or other resources can have great material costs for the giver, why do Zambian migrants…
Remitting the gift
This article brings together anthropological theories of gift exchange and ethnographic data on migrant gifting (‘remitting’) in order to understand the core of investing in social relations through remitting practices. Migration literature from throughout the developing world documents important patterns of remitting that furthers our understanding of how migrants' earnings help rural investment. In contrast to the majority of migration literatu…
Child growth as a measure of livelihood security
This article outlines an approach to the study of child growth and development in adverse environments that utilizes growth to measure the success of the human/environment interaction. This type of biocultural, human adaptability perspective focuses on within group variation to gain an understanding of the differential ability of households to negotiate opportunities and constraints in the ecological/social/cultural environment. As an example, we…
Promoting Multi-methods Research
The experience of migration includes costs and benefits to migrants and sending communities. In the tradition of a “letters” type discussion, this paper presents a synthesis of recent work from a longitudinal study from Zambia, Africa that used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the experience and outcomes of migration among the Gwembe Tonga. In this ethnographic study, we argue that including anthropometric methods in migration studies enha…
Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use
Chronic Uncertainty and Momentary Opportunity
Migration Following Resettlement of the Gwembe Tonga of Zambia
In 1958, 57,000 Gwembe Tonga people were forcibly relocated by a large-scale hydroelectric development project. The land on which they were resettled was insufficient to sustain their livelihoods, and many later chose to migrate to a frontier zone north and west of the Gwembe Valley to secure additional land for farming. Guided by human adaptability theory, we use child growth as a measure of success of the migration strategy, and find that in 20…
Lunda Friendships (Friends for Life, Friends for Death)
Crimes Against the Future
Throughout the continent of Africa, employment in the formal sector has been a much coveted position, offering what people hope will be livelihood security; however, with pressures from international financial institutions and current economic upheaval, formal sector wages are increasingly insufficient to support individuals and families. This article presents preliminary data from an ethnographic study of teachers' livelihoods, documenting the r…
Componentes Sociais Da Migração
As suposições comuns atribuem causas econômicas e ambientais às decisões de migração. Este trabalho revela a importância das estruturas do poder local - ao nível da comunidade e da família - para entender a migração. São examinados os processos migratórios na Província Sul da Zâmbia por meio do uso de informações coletadas de dois projetos de pesquisa qualitativa. Até recentemente, quando a seca e as doenças bovinas começaram a devastar a área, a…
Access, Alienation, and the Production of Chronic Liminality
This article examines several decades of cyclical shifts in the political ecology of a Zambian national park buffer zone, where Gwembe Tonga migrants have pioneered land for ambitious livelihood dreams, while repeatedly encountering challenges from the government, development programs, and host populations. The buffer zone is a marginal space where people, land, and animals come together at different moments in time and in different constellation…
How the Commons Was Changed
A review of The Contested Floodplain: Institutional Change of the Commons in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. By Tobias Haller. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013
Social and Political Economy
Most humans grow up in family groups of some sort and therefore get basic training in working together, sharing, and identifying as a member of a collective with a group identity. This capacity to belong seems very basic to many, a "natural" characteristic of the species. The social exchange theory used by game theorists tries to show that individual maximizing leads people to form social groups as a rational solution to real-world economic probl…
Economic Anthropology An Undisciplined Discipline
This chapter describes the early history of economic anthropology and economic philosophy. It shows how the formalist-substantivist debate, once the centerpiece of economic anthropology, has now become an obstacle instead of an inspiration. The field needs to move beyond the debate and ask more sophisticated questions. Economists, in the meantime, mostly ignored anthropology and went on with the business of advising politicians on how to run the …
Self-Interest and Neoclassical Microeconomics
This chapter outlines the intellectual history of the effort to build economics starting from the rational individual. The goal is to give a fair and balanced view of the dominant perspective in modern Western economics, to explain some of its results and conclusions, and to question why it has achieved such wide acceptance and power in the world. The chapter contains some discussion of the internal criticism of Western economics by people seekin…
The Moral Human Cultural Economics
The newspapers and magazines in the United States are full of discussions about "family values" and the collapse of public morality. People in small towns across America perceive that there is increasing family violence, teenage pregnancy, drunk driving, and handguns in the high schools. Many economists have no trouble accepting the general proposition that culture shapes human values, since economists do not pretend to explain where values come …
Conclusions Complex Economic Human Beings
In 1982, Richard Wilk began working with another anthropologist on an ethnographic project among an exotic tribe: middle-class suburbanites in Santa Cruz County, northern California. The United States was then, as now, highly dependent on foreign oil, and public utilities could no longer afford to build new nuclear power plants. The authors present fair and balanced views of three fundamentally different approaches to human behavior, arguing that…
Gifts and Exchange
This chapter offers a history of how anthropologists have looked at economic systems over time, and provides a framework-the three paradigms-for understanding how ideas of the economy connect with models of human nature. It examines that the gift giving is a good way to see all the various aspects of human nature in action at one time because gifts can be simultaneously understood as rational exchange, as a way to build political and social relat…
Economics and the Problem of Human Nature
This chapter describes that the controversy in economic anthropology has revolved around the problem of defining "economic" behavior and "the economy" as an objective set of activities and objects. It explores the debates and disagreements to expose the most basic "bedrock" positions. The chapter suggests that neither the formalist-substantivist debate nor the later theoretical trends in the discipline have generally asked the right questions. It…
The Gift of Volunteering
Foreign aid to southern Africa has triggered the growth of a nonprofit sector that increasingly provides welfare and social support for needy populations. However, largely absent from research on this sector are substantive analyses of the contribution of voluntarism and interpersonal exchange to broader welfare development and social cohesion. This paper employs theories of gift exchange to analyze volunteer practices and localized interpretatio…
Economies and Cultures
This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, including Vietnam, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. It identifies the fundamental practical and theoretical problems that give economic anthropology its unique strengths and vision
Economics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Livelihood (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works)