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Development Anthropology

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ISBN-10: 0813309840

ISBN-13: 9780813309842

Edition: 2002

Authors: Riall Nolan, 2. 0000000000 Nolan

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Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of how anthropology is used in international development projects. Written from a practitioner's standpoint, and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The first part of the book looks at the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development, and how these have been involved with each other since the 1950s. The second, and main, part of the book focuses on how development projects work, and how anthropology is used in their design, implementation,…    
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Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Anthropology and Development
Anthropology as a Science of Discovery
A Different Way of Seeing
How Anthropologists Work
Development as a Cross-Cultural Encounter
Summary of Chapter 1
The Rise of the Development Industry
A World Out of Balance
Development as a Global Project
Today's Development Industry
The Evolution of Development Policy and Practice
Summary of Chapter 2
Putting Anthropology to Work
Anthropology and the Colonial Past
Development of an Applied Perspective in U.S. Anthropology
Varieties of Anthropological Application
Academic, Applied, and Practicing Anthropology
Anthropological Practice
Development Anthropology Today
The Dialectics of Application
Summary of Chapter 3
Development Projects Examined
The Nature of Development Projects
Characteristics of Projects
The Structure and Life Cycle of Projects
Approaches to Project Planning
Project Development as an Emergent Problem
Anthropology and Project Development
Summary of Chapter 4
Information in Project Development
Project Levels
Integrating Project Levels
Identifying Project Stakeholders
Learning About Stakeholder Communities
Managing Information Gathering
Summary of Chapter 5
Framing Projects
Project Purposes
Project Strategies
Project Sustainability
Local Participation
Predicting Project Impact
Summary of Chapter 6
Managing Projects
Management Needs in Project Development
Organizational Culture
Decisionmaking
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Technical Assistance and Counterpart Relationships
Summary of Chapter 7
Assessing Projects
The Purposes of Assessment
Monitoring and Evaluation
Context-Based Assessment
Learning Project Lessons
Development Ethnography
Summary of Chapter 8
The Way Ahead
Reforming the Development Industry
Development at Century's End
A Failure to Learn
Possibilities for Reform
Summary of Chapter 9
Redirecting Anthropology
Anthropology and Development: The Difficult Encounter
Anthropologists and Administrative Culture
Becoming a Profession
Changing the Academy
The Way Ahead
Summary of Chapter 10
A New Development Paradigm?
Where We Are
Opportunity and Danger
A New Development Paradigm
Changing the Way Our Institutions Think
Summary of Chapter 11
Becoming a Development Anthropologist
Glossary
References