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Moore has published more than 20 articles and books on topics ranging from Law and Anthropology (her specialty), to the Chagga tribe of Tanzania, to "assymetrical crosscousin marriage and Crow-Omaha terminology." Choice magazine named her book, Law and Process, one of 1978's best academic works...
Moore has published more than 20 articles and books on topics ranging from Law and Anthropology (her specialty), to the Chagga tribe of Tanzania, to "asymmetrical cross-cousin marriage and Crow-Omaha terminology." Choice magazine named her book, Law and Process, one of 1978's best academic works...
...answer must begin with cases. Consider Uganda under Idi Amin. Amin was the legitimate ruler when Tanzania invaded and overthrew him. The Tanzanians might say that this was in response to Ugandan border incursions, but Amin had ordered his troops withdrawn more than a month before Tanzania's action. In any case, if repelling a trespass at the border was the problem, Tanzania should have stopped there. It hardly had to drive to Kampala and install the leader of its choice. Tanzania's action, ridding the world of Amin, was a violation of Ugandan sovereignty. It is hard...
...baleful effects of excessive population growth are already evident. In addition to unrestrained urban growth, McNamara notes the increasing inadequacy of Third World agriculture, owing in part to rural overpopulation and economic distortions caused by efforts to palliate the rising tide of urban consumers. In such countries as Tanzania and India, where people depend on firewood for fuel, deforestation is damaging flood control, speeding erosion and adding to the hardship of merely staying alive. Citing the example of China, McNamara warns that rapid population growth may also lead to greater and more coercive state intrusions into private life, ranging from...
Donald S. Shepard '69 left Harvard and entered the Harvard-Africa Volunteer Program. He wanted to teach high school in socialist Tanzania but was denied a work permit. When his work permit was denied--he believes because he came from capitalist America--Shepard says he realized that "unbridled idealism was not what the world was looking for," that reformers need to work within existing organizations that have their own rules and procedures. After the experience. "I went into less idealistic, less grassroots sort of activity," he adds...