• Preface vii
• NORMAN UPHOFF
• Acknowledgement xii
• Introduction xiii
• PETER BLUNT AND D. MICHAEL WARREN
• PART 1 AFRICA
• 1. The drum speaks—Are we listening? Experiences in
• development with a traditional Gabra institution—The
• Yaa Galbo 1
• B.J. LINQUIST WITH DAVID ADOLPH
• 2. Traditional settlement, cultural identity and rural
• development in the Transkei 7
• PATRICK A. MCALLISTER
• 3. Hometown associations: Balancing local and extralocal
• interests in Nigerian communities 21
• MICHAEL L. McNULTY AND MARK F. LAWRENCE
• 4. Indigenous organizations and development:
• The case of Ara, Nigeria 43
• D. MICHAEL WARREN, REMIADEDOKUN AND
• AKINTOLA OMOLAOYE
• 5. The Ogbomoso Parapo: A case-study of an indigenous
• development association in Nigeria 50
• G. O. KOLAWOLE
• 6. Community development associations and self-reliance:
• The case of Isalu Community Development Union, Iseyin,
• Nigeria 56
• BOLANLE W. WAHAB
• 1. The importance of indigenous organizations to the
• sustainability of contemporary Yoruba strip-weaving industries
• in Iseyin, Nigeria 67
• NORMA H. WOLFF AND BOLANLE W. WAHAB
• 8. Traditional leadership and community management in Northern
• Ghana 88
• NANCY COSWAY AND STEVE A. ANANKUM
• 9. Indigenous healer associations and a South African AIDSprevention
• project 97
• EDWARD C GREEN AND BONGIE ZOKWE
• vi Contents
• PART II INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT
• 10. History of an indigenous community management
• organization in Nepal 109
• DURGA POKHREL AND ANTHONY B. J. WILLET
• 11. Building on the Panchayat: Using Jal Samitis in Uttar
• Pradesh 123
• YOGESH KUMAR
• 12. Informal institutions of financial intermediation: Social
• value of Vishis, chit funds and self-help groups 132
• TUSHAAR SHAH AND MICHAEL JOHNSON
• 13. Taking count of the depth of the ditches: Understanding local
• organization forms, their problems and strategic responses 143
• NIDHI SRINIVAS
• PART III ASIA-PACIFIC
• Australia and New Zealand
• 14. Aboriginal agenda or agency agenda? Community-development
• planning projects in Australia 159
• JACKIE WOLFE-KEDDIE
• 15. Yolngu rom: Indigenous knowledge in north Australia 184
• IAN HUGHES
• 16. Community development among the New Zealand Maori:
• The Tainui case 193
• TOON VAN MEIJL
• Canada
• 17. Indigenous organizations for development in the Canadian north:
• Native development corporations 214
• LEO PAUL DANA
• China
• 18. The role of indigenous organizations in the rural
• development of China: A case-study of a non-farm productive
• activity 220
• LI XIAOYUN, LI OU AND ZHOU SHENGKUN
• Indonesia
• 19. Using indigenous organizations from West Kalimantan 228
• CAROL J. PIERCE COLFER, REED L. WADLEY AND
• ENIS WIDJANARTI
• Philippines
• 20. Personal networks and agricultural extension in the Philippines 239
• RICARDO C. ARMONIA

Peter Blunt From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government’s programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia.

D Michael Warren Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies.