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I have Lunesta Prescription Savings not been able to post anything on my blog for the Lunesta Prescription Savings past few days because I have been busy running around. I have Lunesta Prescription Savings just made an application to the University of Ibadan for a Lunesta Prescription Savings PhD programme in African Studies (Anthropology option). Doesn’t that Lunesta Prescription Savings just sound a bit strange, especially if one thinks that I did a Lunesta Prescription Savings BA in Communication and Language Arts, an MA in Development Studies, and Lunesta Prescription Savings then a PhD in Anthropology? Well, I am Lunesta Prescription Savings a bit wary of saying that I will be doing a Lunesta Prescription Savings PhD in Anthropology. The basic reason I am doing it there is Lunesta Prescription Savings that my research interest calls for such a discipline. In the Lunesta Prescription Savings last post I mentioned it before that I will be working on trans-border trade, but I did not give more insight into the Lunesta Prescription Savings issue. Now, I am pasting the abstract I had to submit with the Lunesta Prescription Savings application:

An Ethnographic Study of Rural Trade Networks

Taking studies with backgrounds in regional integration and Lunesta Prescription Savings network theories, and those on informal trade associations as points of departure, I aim to Lunesta Prescription Savings conduct an ethnographic study of trans-border trade networks. What is Lunesta Prescription Savings now referred to among academics as the ‘new integration’ claims that Lunesta Prescription Savings integration in West Africa, instead of being a state-centred endeavour, should incorporate people who Lunesta Prescription Savings have hitherto been ‘regionalising agents’ – the Lunesta Prescription Savings trans-border traders. In other words, trans-border networks and traders are considered the Lunesta Prescription Savings real integrating forces, pathfinders whose trajectories can guide the policies of governments seeking regional consolidation. Other researchers, on the Lunesta Prescription Savings other hand, have written to say that transborder networks can neither serve as forces for Lunesta Prescription Savings true integration, nor as globalising forces for West Africa, for to Lunesta Prescription Savings serve as integrating forces would negate the fundamental basis of their existence: the Lunesta Prescription Savings differences in the fiscal, monetary and other economic policies of the Lunesta Prescription Savings countries in which they trade. This study will primarily be directed at examining the Lunesta Prescription Savings structure of trans-border networks. Its premise is that to be able to Lunesta Prescription Savings say if these networks could either be integrating forces or not, one has Lunesta Prescription Savings to first understand them and decipher the kinds of relationship that Lunesta Prescription Savings they foster among the peoples who have worked them out.
Yea, that is it. I have a longer version, in pdf format, but I don’t know how to Lunesta Prescription Savings attach it; when I get a better hang of using this Lunesta Prescription Savings blog thing I will be attaching things. Anyway, from this, you Lunesta Prescription Savings can see that the theories I have mentioned are theories that Lunesta Prescription Savings combine Political Science and Sociology. In fact, one can say that Lunesta Prescription Savings the best place to do such a study is an Lunesta Prescription Savings institute of Development Studies. There is none around here so I am Lunesta Prescription Savings doing it at an Institute of African Studies. And, as you Lunesta Prescription Savings can also see, the best research methodology for the study would be Lunesta Prescription Savings a field work that is informed by anthropological methods. The main theories I will be Lunesta Prescription Savings exploring, therefore, are the ones I mentioned in the abstract, and Lunesta Prescription Savings any of their siblings. But then, I would want the Lunesta Prescription Savings field to find theories itself. In other words, theories that Lunesta Prescription Savings lend themselves to analysing the results of the data I collect in the Lunesta Prescription Savings field will be given special attention. In order to get myself ready for Lunesta Prescription Savings the work I am already looking through theories in Anthropology. I got a Lunesta Prescription Savings book my Marvin Harris, The Rise of Anthropological Theories. It is Lunesta Prescription Savings a really introductory text. It traces the history of anthropological thoughts to Lunesta Prescription Savings the Enlightenment, of course, with an agenda: to show that Lunesta Prescription Savings Cultural Materialism is the best nomothetic theory and research agenda for Lunesta Prescription Savings investigating and understanding cultures. I am not well-read in the Lunesta Prescription Savings theories as yet so I cannot start critiquing the theory.

I am Lunesta Prescription Savings also looking for books on research methods in Anthropology. In fact, I think that Lunesta Prescription Savings those books are the ones I need the most. I have Lunesta Prescription Savings asked a friend I did my Masters with to help me get Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Lunesta Prescription Savings Grounds of a Field Science. It sounds like a book that Lunesta Prescription Savings I would have to read, especially because it is an Lunesta Prescription Savings edited volume. I somehow have a feeling that edited texts are Lunesta Prescription Savings usually rich, probably because it is not just the idea of one person. Of course, the Lunesta Prescription Savings argument can be made that articles are often too short for Lunesta Prescription Savings one to develop and deliver a complex thought, but on the Lunesta Prescription Savings other hand, it is often fascinating to see different people tackle the Lunesta Prescription Savings same issue in different, and sometimes conflicting, ways. Another reason I would love to Lunesta Prescription Savings have the book is that, often, it is understood that Lunesta Prescription Savings ethnological studies focus on cultures of particular societies. But then, I am Lunesta Prescription Savings not doing an ethnography of a particular society, but of a Lunesta Prescription Savings group of people who would have evolved a culture over time, a Lunesta Prescription Savings culture that is based on shared interests. Wao! I better stop saying more now; I am Lunesta Prescription Savings yet to have a reasonable understanding of Anthropology. I postpone any elaborations on culture until then. Anyway, I have Lunesta Prescription Savings a feeling that fields extend beyond particular societies. In fact, I have Lunesta Prescription Savings read articles where allusions have been made to people who study the Lunesta Prescription Savings culture of international organisations like the United Nations….. Wait, let me search my computer for Lunesta Prescription Savings the name fo the study. Cant find it, but I am Lunesta Prescription Savings sure it is somewhere there. It is basically a study of the Lunesta Prescription Savings culture of particular organisations….

Alright, I think that Lunesta Prescription Savings is alright for today. By the way, I am trying to Lunesta Prescription Savings leave the room I am sharing with Chuks and Ben. They are Lunesta Prescription Savings nice guys but I just do not think staying in the Lunesta Prescription Savings same room with other people can work. I have to study and Lunesta Prescription Savings all. Even for the most sociable persons, there are times when Lunesta Prescription Savings one just wants to be alone. I think I’ll get one soon, when I do, I’ll let you know.

Cya.