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9780521184724

Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

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    9780521184724

  • ISBN10:

    052118472X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-11-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to those who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This essential textbook reveals anthropologists' often surprising findings and details ethnographic case studies on the cultures of development. The authors use a fertile literature to examine the socio-political organisation of aid communities, agencies and networks as well as the judgements they make about each other. Exploring the spaces between policy and practice, success and failure, the future and the past, this book provides a rounded understanding of development work that suggests new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world.

Table of Contents

Introduction: hope and despair
Anthropologists engaged
The social and political organisation of aid and development
The elusive poor
Human rights and cultural fantasies
Hierarchies of knowledge
The moralities of production and exchange
The politics of policy and practice
Imagining the future
Challenging questions arising from this book
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