"The themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the contributors remind us that what many development scholars and policy-makers downgrade as 'context' -history, ways of making meaning, political disputes -are often central to explaining development practice... This book]not only implies the need for a classificatory rethink, which has been widely recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of development in Europe could be." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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