Anthropology and Development: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century - Couverture rigide

Gardner, Katy; Lewis, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745333656 ISBN 13 : 9780745333656

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and is the author of several books including Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (1995) and Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745333656
• ISBN 13: 9780745333656
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 240