Anthropology and development : challenges for the twenty-first century / / Katy Gardner and David Lewis

• Autore: Gardner Katy
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Pluto Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 301
• Soggetto topico: Applied anthropology; Economic development - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): LewisDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten new edition of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge (1996). It will serve as both an innovative reformulation of the field, and as a textbook for many undergraduate and graduate courses at leading universities in Europe and North America. The authors Katy Gardner and David Lewis engage with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, they argue that while the world of international development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more rigidly technocratic. Anthropology and Development therefore insists on a focus upon the core anthropological issues surrounding poverty and inequality, and thus redefines what are perceived as problems in the field."--Publisher's website.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology and development
• ISBN: 1-78371-276-7; 1-78371-275-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818066803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology, culture, and society.