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For more on these topics and debates, consult these sources:

Anthropology, Modernity and Development

  • Bennett 1988: "anthropology and development: ambiguous engagement", Development 4: 6-16
  • Cooper, Frederick and Randall Packard, eds. International development and the Social Sciences, California, 1997. [intro and Ferguson articles excerpted in Edelman and Haugurud]
  • Eyben, Rosalind. "Development and Anthropology: a View from Inside the Agency," Critique of Anthropology 20(1), 2000. [responding to Gardner and Lewis, a dev. anthro. seeking practical solutions.]
  • Edelman and Haugerud, eds. "Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization," The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Blackwell, 2005.
  • Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995.
  • Ferguson, James. "Anthropology and its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of the Discipline," Cooper, Frederick and Randall Packard, eds. International development and the Social Sciences, California, 1997.
  • Gardner, Katy and David Lewis. Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge. 1997. [library has]
  • Grillo, R.D. and R. L. Stirrat. Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives.Oxford, 1997.
  • M. Hobart, ed., (Brit. anthro). An Anthropological Critique of Development: the Growth of Ignorance. London: Routledge, 1993.
  • Peet, Richard. Theories of Development. London: The Guilford Press, 1999.
  • Majid Rahnema (Editor), Victoria Bawtree (Editor), The Post-Development Reader (Paperback),
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