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Title: The anthropology of development and globalization : from classical political economy to contemporary neoliberalism / edited by Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Description: x, 406 p. ; 25 cm.
Other Author(s): Edelman, Marc.
Haugerud, Angelique, 1952-
Table of Contents: Part I: Classical Foundations: 1. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or Of Productive and Unproductive Labor / Adam Smith.-- 2. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.-- 3. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit / Max Weber.-- 4. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money / Karl Polyani.-- Part II: What is “Development”? Twentieth-Century Debates: 5. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory / Colin Leys.-- 6. The History and Politics of Development Knowledge / Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard.-- 7. Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the Constitution of a Discipline / James Ferguson.-- Part III: From Development to Globalization: 8. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence / Jonathan Friedman.-- 9. The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification / David Graeber.-- 10. Globalization After September 11 / Saskia Sassen.-- 11. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff.-- Part IV: Consumption, Markets, Culture: 12. Agricultural Involution Revisited / Clifford Geertz.-- 13. Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa / Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan.-- 14. Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism / Louisa Schein.-- 15. A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation / Daniel Miller.-- 16. Is Culture a Barrier to Change? / Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison.-- Part V: Gender, Work, and Networks: 17. “Men-streaming” Gender? Question for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century / Sylvia Chant and Matthew Gutmann.-- 18. Deterritorialziation and Workplace Culture /Jane Collins.-- 19. The Network Inside Out / Annelise Riles.-- Part VI: Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology: 20. Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso.-- 21. Misreading the African Landscape / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead.-- 22. Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project / Hilary Cunningham.-- Part VII: Inside Development Institutions: 23. Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion / Jonathan Fox.-- 24. Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development / Emery Roe.-- 25. The Social Organization of the IMF’s Mission Work / Richard Harper.-- Part VIII: Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development?: 26. Imagining a Post-Development Era /Arturo Escobar.-- 27. Beyond Development? / Katy Gardner and David Lewis.-- 28. Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty / Elizabeth Isichei.-- 29. Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State / Barbara Chasin and Richard Franke.-- 30. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? / Katherine Verdery.-- 31. Disappearing the Poor? / John Gledhill.
Summary: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an overview of this field that ranges from the field’s classical origins to today’s debates about the “magic” of the free market. [from publisher’s advertisement]
Subject Heading(s): Political anthropology.
Economic anthropology.
Economic development.
Rural development.
Globalization.
Hybridity (Social sciences)
Series Title(s): Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 5
Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0631228802 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0631228799 (hardback : alk. paper)

Location: Barr Smith Reserve collection
Call Number: 306.2 E217a
Status: Available

Location: Barr Smith Main collection
Call Number: 306.2 E217a Copy 2
Status: Available

Location: Barr Smith Main collection
Call Number: 306.2 E217a Copy 3
Status: c.3 On loan - Due on 21/11/2009

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