Anthropology and Development: Understanding Contemporary Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781842774168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str.

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Opis

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions.
The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and political strategies.
Following its successful publication in French, this important book will provoke much thoughtful debate within Anthropology, Sociology and Development Studies."