The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabé Village

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  • Marta Rohatynskyj University of Guelph

Abstract

A community actualized development program aiming to assure women equal access to the benefits of development is examined in terms of impact on women's status. The interaction of the forms of organization envisaged in the village as leading to development and the indigenous structures often lead to conflict. This conflict can be seen as due to the lack of fit between extant forms of organization and those introduced by the development agency. However, it is shown that decisions in contradiction of the desired forms of social action are due to pragmatic choices on the part of the community in relation to realistic goals. It is concluded that such a form of development intervention does not assure equal access of women to the benefits of development.

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Author Biography

Marta Rohatynskyj, University of Guelph

Marta Rohatynskyj is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guelph. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She has conducted fieldwork in Burkina-Faso and, most recently, in Papua New Guinea, to which she will be returning for the summer of 1994. Her research interests include gender and social organization, gender and development and multiethnic studies. Articles reflecting these interests have appeared in journals such as Man and The Canadian Journal of African Studies

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Published

2022-06-01

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Rohatynskyj, M. (2022). The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabé Village. Anthropologica, 35(1), 3–22. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1909

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Vol. 35 No. 1 (1993)

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