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Development Anthropology

Author : Riall W Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980639
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Development Anthropology written by Riall W Nolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Students will really appreciate this book. It has a rare combination of humor, clarity, exceptional writing, and, above all, a precision in outlining skills and knowledge for practice. As a professional, I learned much that will be useful to me.” —Alexander M. Ervin, University of Saskatchewan “At last, a textbook on development anthropology that is comprehensive, clearly written, and up-to-date! Nolan provides an exceptionally useful framework for analyzing development projects, carefully illustrated with mini-case studies.” —Linda Stone, Washington State University “Nolan’s book should be a backpack staple for the practitioner of grassroots development.” —Jan Knippers Black, Monterey Institute of International Studies Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of anthropology’s many uses in international development projects. Written from a practitioner’s standpoint and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book provides students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The book outlines the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development and their involvement with each other throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how development projects work and how anthropology is used in project design, implementation, and evaluation. The final section of the book considers how both development and anthropology must change in order to become more effective. An appendix provides practical advice to students considering a career in development anthropology.

Developmental Anthropology

Author : Gaya Pandey
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180695704
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Developmental Anthropology written by Gaya Pandey and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Economic Development

Author : Jeffrey H. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759116695
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Economic Development written by Jeffrey H. Cohen and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable development, globalization and privatization, tourism, urban development, and financial markets. The cross-cultural focus of the volume provides original data on development processes in many countries, including the Philippines, Bali, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, Kazakstan, and the United States. The book will be a welcome source of comparative research for anthropologists, development specialists, agricultural researchers, environmentalists, and geographers.

Anthropology for Development

Author : Robyn Eversole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392906
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology for Development written by Robyn Eversole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology for Development: From Theory to Practice connects cross-cultural social theory with the concerns of development policy and practice. It introduces the reader to a set of key ideas from the field of anthropology of development, and shows how these insights can be applied to solve real-world development dilemmas. This single, accessibly written volume clearly explains key concepts from anthropology and draws them into a framework to address some of the important challenges facing development policy and practice in the twenty-first century: poverty, participation, sustainability and innovation. It discusses classic critical and ethnographic texts and more recent anthropological work, using rich case studies across a range of country contexts to provide an introduction to the field not available elsewhere. The examples presented are designed to help development professionals reframe their practice with attention to social and cultural variables as well as understand why mainstream approaches to reducing poverty, raising productivity, delivering social services and grappling with environmental risks often fail. This book will prove invaluable to undergraduate and postgraduate students who are professionals-in-training in development studies programs around the world. It will also help development professionals work effectively and inclusively across cultures, tap into previously invisible resources, and turn current development challenges into opportunities.

Anthropology and Child Development

Author : Robert A. LeVine
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631229760
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Child Development written by Robert A. LeVine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks for investigating and interpreting them. Presents a history of cross-cultural approaches to child-development Recent articles examine diverse contexts of childhood in ecological, semiotic, and sociolinguistic terms Includes ethnographic studies of childhood in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Europe and North America Illuminates the process through which people become the bearers of culturally/historically specific identities Serves as an ideal text for anthropology courses focusing on childhood, as well as classes on development psychology

Anthropology and Development

Author : Emma Crewe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005922
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Development written by Emma Crewe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of anthropological perspectives on the cultures, moralities and politics of the world of aid and development.

Anthropology, Development and Modernities

Author : Alberto Arce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134628420
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology, Development and Modernities written by Alberto Arce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the diffusion of modernity and the spread of development schemes may bring prosperity, optimism and opportunity for some, for others it has brought poverty, a deterioration in quality of life and has given rise to violence. This collection brings an anthropological perspective to bear on understanding the diverse modernities we face in the contemporary world. It provides a critical review of interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from regions as diverse as Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West Africa and contemporary Europe. Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. Ethnography can show how people's own agency transforms, recasts and complicates the modernities they experience. The contributors argue that explanations of change framed in terms of the dominantdiscourses and institutions of modernity are inadequate, and that we give closer attention to discourses, images, beliefs and practices that run counter to these yet play a part in shaping them and giving them meaning. Anthropology, Development and Modernities deals with the realities of people's everyday lives and dilemmas. It is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and development studies. It should also be read by all those actively involved in development work.

Differentiating Development

Author : Soumhya Venkatesan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453041
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Differentiating Development written by Soumhya Venkatesan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates about development, moving beyond the critical stance to focus on development as a mode of engagement that, like anthropology, attempts to understand, represent and work within a complex world. By setting out to elucidate both the similarities and differences between these epistemological endeavors, the book demonstrates how the ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology to rethink its own assumptions and methods. In particular, contributors focus on the important but often overlooked relationship between acting and understanding, in ways that speak to debates about the role of anthropologists and academics in the wider world. The case studies presented are from a diverse range of geographical and ethnographic contexts, from Melanesia to Africa and Latin America, and ethnographic research is combined with commentary and reflection from the foremost scholars in the field.

The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

Author : Roy G. D'Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521459761
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Cognitive Anthropology written by Roy G. D'Andrade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during the l950s and l960s which was concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex and sophisticated cognitive theories of classification in anthropology which took place in the l970s and l980s. In an analysis of more recent developments, the author considers work involving cultural models, emotion, motivation and action. He concludes with a summary of the theoretical perspective of cognitive anthropology.

Anthropology and Development

Author : Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136137
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Development written by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.

Development Anthropology

Author : Glynn Cochrane
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Development Anthropology written by Glynn Cochrane and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the changing role of the sociologist (anthropologist) - argues that applied social and cultural anthropology has made little impact on other disciplines and professions and suggests that development anthropologists should cultivate a wider understanding of the political aspects, legal aspects, agricultural aspects, etc., of social change. Bibliography pp. 115 to 122.

The Anthropology of Sustainability

Author : Marc Brightman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137566361
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Sustainability written by Marc Brightman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.

Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge

Author : Katy Gardner
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745307473
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge written by Katy Gardner and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1996-05-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A well-crafted, sensitive, reflective and constructive book. It is highly recommended.' --Development Policy Review

Adventures in Aidland

Author : David Mosse
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857451118
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Aidland written by David Mosse and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development's discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction but is equally interested in the social life of development professionals, in the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, in networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and in the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities. Going well beyond obsolete debates about 'pure' and 'applied' anthropology, the book examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.

Development Anthropology

Author : Riall W Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429969554
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Development Anthropology written by Riall W Nolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Students will really appreciate this book. It has a rare combination of humor, clarity, exceptional writing, and, above all, a precision in outlining skills and knowledge for practice. As a professional, I learned much that will be useful to me.” —Alexander M. Ervin, University of Saskatchewan “At last, a textbook on development anthropology that is comprehensive, clearly written, and up-to-date! Nolan provides an exceptionally useful framework for analyzing development projects, carefully illustrated with mini-case studies.” —Linda Stone, Washington State University “Nolan’s book should be a backpack staple for the practitioner of grassroots development.” —Jan Knippers Black, Monterey Institute of International Studies Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of anthropology’s many uses in international development projects. Written from a practitioner’s standpoint and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book provides students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The book outlines the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development and their involvement with each other throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how development projects work and how anthropology is used in project design, implementation, and evaluation. The final section of the book considers how both development and anthropology must change in order to become more effective. An appendix provides practical advice to students considering a career in development anthropology.

Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology

Author : Clifford Wilcox
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739107287
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology written by Clifford Wilcox and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying upon close readings of virtually all of his published and unpublished writings as well as extensive interviews with former colleagues and students, this book traces the development of Robert Redfield's ideas regarding social change and the role of social science in American society.

Development Anthropology

Author : Hari Mohan Mathur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858909X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Development Anthropology written by Hari Mohan Mathur and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Development Anthropology: Putting Culture First, Hari Mohan Mathur highlights the role of culture—and anthropological work more broadly—in development outcomes. Anthropologists’ contributions in this area have traditionally received little attention, but this changed when the World Bank released the 2015 World Development Report. This report focused on the social, cultural, and psychological influences which affect the development process, and like Mathur, stressed the criticality of anthropological and other social sciences’ knowledge for the success of development efforts. A major contribution to development anthropology, this book will interest anthropologists, economists, sociologists, other social scientists, policy makers, planners, development practitioners, researchers and trainers, and will be particularly useful for graduate students planning their career in the field of development.