Series Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Acronyms
Prelude: Development, Post-Development and More Development?
1. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice into the
Twenty-First Century
2. Applying Anthropology
3. The Anthropology of Development
4. Anthropologists in Development: Access, Effects and Control
5. When Good Ideas Turn Bad: The Dominant Discourse Bites Back
Conclusion: Anthropology, Development and Twenty-First Century
Challenges
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of
Economics and the author of Global Migrants, Local Lives (Oxford
University Press, 1995), Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012) and
Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015).
David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development in the
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He is the
author of Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (CUP,
2012), co-author of Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015) and
co-editor of The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).
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'An authoritative and up to date overview that combines accurate
and insightful overviews of the major contributions in the field
with their own original and illuminating arguments'
*Professor James Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Stanford
University*
'Essential reading for all involved with anthropology or
development - and essential proof that they should engage their
perspectives with each other more deeply and more often'
*Professor Melissa Leach, Anthropologist and Director, Institute of
Development Studies*
'The already impressive state of arts of the first book has been
extended to most of the rapidly expanding literature of the last
twenty years. This book is essential for anyone interested by
debates concerning the relation between anthropology and
development'
*Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Professor of Anthropology at the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles*
'This carefully reworked volume by two of development's most
accomplished scholars reinvigorates, like no other treatise in the
field, the connection between research, critique, and action in
inspired and practical ways'
*Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill*
'A valuable addition to the history and heritage of
anthropologyof/in development'
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