Anthropology and development : challenges for the twenty-first century /

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A critical look at how a non-traditional, technocratic development industry is failing the societies it professes to help.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Gardner, Katy, 1964- (Author), Lewis, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK : Pluto Press, 2015.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Applied anthropology.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Anthropologie appliquée.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Applied anthropology
Economic development > Social aspects
Tillämpad antropologi.
Ekonomisk utveckling > sociala aspekter.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: Development, post-development and more development?
  • Understanding development : theory and practice into the twenty-first century
  • Applying anthropology
  • The anthropology of development
  • Anthropologists in development : access, effects and control
  • When good ideas turn bad : the dominant discourse bites back
  • Conclusion : Anthropology, development and twenty-first-century challenges.

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