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Agricultural degradation : changing community systems in rural Taiwan

This book, Shu-min Huang's Ph.D. thesis, is a study of the effects of industrialization and economic development on agriculture and rural life in San-lin, a village in central Taiwan, and by extension in Taiwan as a whole. Huang's main point is that a cultural ecological approach is far more productive than the models of development heretofore advanced by Western economists and sociologists. The latter are inapplicable to the Third World because they are ethnocentric, psychologically reductionist, circular, and, most importantly, they ignore crucial sociocultural elements inherent in any individual system. This he demonstrates in his analysis of wet rice agriculture in Taiwan and how "ill-advised economic development programs" have severely damaged it.