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9780759102118

Economic Development An Anthropological Approach

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  • ISBN13:

    9780759102118

  • ISBN10:

    0759102112

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-04-23
  • Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Summary

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of marke

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Development in Practice and Theory: A Positive Role for Anthropology xi
Jeffrey H. Cohen
Norbert Dannhaeuser
PART I: Development and Theory in Anthropology
Involution and Modernization: The Case of Clifford Geertz
3(20)
Nils Gilman
The Evolution of Market Niches among Oaxacan Wood-Carvers
23(28)
Michael Chibnik
Tourists as a Common-Pool Resource: A Study of Dive Shops on Utila, Honduras
51(18)
Lee Cronk
Shannon Steadman
The Interstices of Urban Development: An Economic Anthropological Approach to Development in a Midwestern U.S. Community
69(18)
Rhoda H. Halperin
PART II: Development in Practice
Barriers to the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge: A Balinese Case Study
87(20)
Nitish Jha
The Common Sense of Development and the Struggle for Participatory Development in Sri Lanka
107(16)
Mike Woost
Culturally Sustainable Development
123(14)
Gracia Clark
An Analysis of Risk Perceptions: Understanding Beneficiaries' Concerns in Sustainable Development Activities
137(24)
Elizabeth T. Kennedy
The Women Left Behind: Potential Effects of Male Migrants' Return on Women's Fertility and Health in Bangladesh
161(22)
Patricia Lyons Johnson
PART III: Locating Development and New Avenues for Research
Gifts, Bribes, and Development in Post-Soviet Kazakstan
183(26)
Cynthia Ann Werner
Globalization, Privatization, and Public Space in the Provincial Philippines
209(32)
Ty Matejowsky
Looking into the Future: Anthropology and Financial Markets
241(24)
Monica Lindh de Montoya
Emerging Markets, Globalization, and the Small Investor: The Case of Venezuela
265(26)
Miguel Montoya
Index 291(4)
About the Contributors 295

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