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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451016603321

Titolo

Practising development : social science perspectives / / edited by Johan Pottier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

0-203-42070-5

0-585-44881-7

1-280-32152-0

1-134-87931-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PottierJohan

Disciplina

307.1/4

Soggetti

Applied anthropology

Social sciences - Methodology

Community development

Economic development projects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: development in practice: assessing social science perspectives; The role of ethnography in project appraisal; Agencies and young people: runaways and young homeless in Wales; Anthropologists or anthropology? The Band Aid perspective on development projects; Anthropology and appraisal: the preparation of two IFAD pastoral development projects in Niger and Mali; Development in Madura: an anthropological approach; Project appraisals: the need for methodological guidelines

Anthropology in farming systems research: a participant observer in Zambia Representing knowledge: the 'new farmer' in research fashions; 'Eze-vu'; success through evaluation: lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the 1980's there have been calls, often from development organizations of global repute, for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable



development programmes. Practising Development is the first collection to offer first-hand critical assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls. By combining academic and practical experience from anthropology, development and aid organizations the contributors examine the processes of intervention, the methods by which this intervention can be assessed, and