AltaMira Press
Pages: 336
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7591-0212-5 • Paperback • April 2002 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7591-1669-6 • eBook • April 2002 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Jeffrey H. Cohen is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who researches the social impact of transnational migration and remittances investment in rural communities. His most recent publication is Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca (1999). Norbert Dannhaeuser is Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and specializes in development issues of complex societies. He is the author of Contemporary Trade Strategies in the Philippines: A Study in Marketing Anthropology.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Development in Practice and Theory, a Positive Role for Anthropology
Part 2 Part I: Development and Theory in Anthropology
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Involution and Modernization: The Case of Clifford Geertz
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Evolution of Market Niches among Oaxacan Wood Carvers
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Tourists as a Common-Pool Resource: A Study of Dive Shops on Utila, Honduras
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: The Interstices of Urban Development: An Economic Anthropological Approach to Development in a Midwestern U.S. Community
Part 7 Part II: Development in Practice
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Barriers to the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge: A Balinese Case Study
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: The Common Sense of Development and the Struggle for Participatory Development in Sri Lanka
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Culturally Sustainable Development
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: An Analysis of Risk Perceptions: Understanding Beneficiaries' Concerns in Sustainable Development Activities
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: The Women Left Behind: Potential Effects of Male Migrants' Return on Women's Fertility and Health in Bangladesh
Part 13 Part III: Locating Development and New Avenues for Research
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Gifts, Bribes and Development in Post-Soviet Kazakstan
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Globalization, Privatization, and Public Space in the Provincial Philippines
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: Looking into the Future: Anthropology and Financial Markets
Chapter 17 Chapter 13: Emerging Markets, Globalization and the Small Investor: The Case of Venezuela
This book is the state of the art in the practice of development anthropology. It demonstrates many important contributions by anthropologists to the development process. Theoretically sophisticated, full of rich case studies, this is an ideal text for a development anthropology course. It includes a remarkable range of critiques and case studies, covering the full terrain of contemporary development anthropology, and is by far the best coverage and quality of any current book on the topic.
— Richard Wilk, distinguished professor emeritus, Indiana University
quite interesting...contains some of the most interesting contributions for thinking about the object(s) and new directions for development anthropology...fascinating contributions.
— Peter Schroder; Anthropos
The local is undervalued in these days of globalization, but not by anthropologists. Cohen and Dannhaeuser bring an empirical, holistic, microlevel perspective to the critical study and practice of development. These case studies give historical and current examples of development practice that show the importance of local input, the necessity of taking local class structure, cultural diversity and values into account. They consider economic development from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. They call for the reintegration of the practice of development with the growth of formal development theory in anthropology. The book highlights the value of anthropology to theory and practice in development.
— Martha Woodson Rees, (Agnes Scott College)