The Anthropology of Development and Globalization From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism

by Edelman, Marc; Haugerud, Angelique

• ISBN13: 9780631228790
• ISBN10: 0631228799
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the "magic" of the free market. Explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism Framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike Includes readings ranging from Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the IMF, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of "post-developmentalism" Fills a crucial gap in the literature by mingling historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization Present a wide range of theoretical approaches and topics

Author Biography

Marc Edelman is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Angelique Haugerud is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization	1	(74)
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
Part I Classical Foundations and Debates	75	(30)
Introduction	77	(28)
1 Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and Unproductive Labor	87	(4)
Adam Smith
2 Manifesto of the Communist Party	91	(4)
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
3 The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit	95	(4)
Max Weber
4 The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money	99	(8)
Karl Polanyi
Part II What is Development? 20th-Century Debates	105	(50)
Introduction	107	(48)
5 The Rise and Fall of Development Theory	109	(17)
Colin Leys
6 The History and Politics of Development Knowledge	126	(14)
Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard
7 Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of a Discipline	140	(17)
James Ferguson
Part III From Development to Globalization	155	(34)
Introduction	157	(16)
8 Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence	160	(9)
Jonathan Friedman
9 The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification	169	(4)
David Graeber
10 Globalization After September 11	173	(4)
Saskia Sassen
11 Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism	177	(12)
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
Part IV Consumption, Markets, Culture	189	(46)
Introduction	191	(3)
12 Agricultural Involution Revisited	194	(12)
Clifford Geertz
13 Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa	206	(10)
Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan
14 Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism	216	(8)
Louisa Schein
15 A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation	224	(8)
Daniel Miller
16 Seeing Culture as a Barrier	232	(3)
Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison
Part V Gender, Work, and Networks	235	(34)
Introduction	237	(3)
17 "Men-streaming" Gender? Questions for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century	240	(10)
Sylvia Chant and Matthew C. Gutmann
18 Deterritorialization and Workplace Culture	250	(12)
Jane L. Collins
19 The Network Inside Out	262	(7)
Annelise Riles
Part VI Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology	269	(32)
Introduction	271	(2)
20 Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia	273	(9)
Nancy Lee Peluso
21 Misreading Africa's Forest History	282	(10)
James Fairhead and Melissa Leach
22 Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project	292	(9)
Hilary Cunningham
Part VII Inside Development Institutions	301	(34)
Introduction	303	(3)
23 Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion	306	(7)
Jonathan Fox
24 Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development	313	(10)
Emery M. Roe
25 The Social Organization of the IMF's Mission Work	323	(12)
Richard Harper
Part VIII Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development	335	(56)
Introduction	337	(4)
26 Imagining a Post-Development Era	341	(11)
Arturo Escobar
27 Beyond Development?	352	(8)
Katy Gardner and David Lewis
28 Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty	360	(8)
Elizabeth Isichei
29 Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State	368	(5)
Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin
30 What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?	373	(9)
Katherine Verdery
31 "Disappearing the Poor?" A Critique of the New Wisdoms of Social Democracy in an Age of Globalization	382	(9)
John Gledhill
Index	391