Book contents
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
- Part I Lay knowledge meets human science, 1855–1940
- 1 Before poverty measurement
- 2 Human scientists in interwar South Africa
- Part II The limits of invention
- Part III The people’s facts
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Before poverty measurement
Conjuring worlds without want
from Part I - Lay knowledge meets human science, 1855–1940
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
- Part I Lay knowledge meets human science, 1855–1940
- 1 Before poverty measurement
- 2 Human scientists in interwar South Africa
- Part II The limits of invention
- Part III The people’s facts
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Poverty Knowledge in South AfricaA Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005, pp. 23 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015