Anthropology for Development: Understanding Contemporary Social Change - Brossura

Olivier De Sardan, Jean-Pierre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1842774174 ISBN 13: 9781842774175

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2005

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseilles and Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1842774174
• ISBN 13: 9781842774175
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 243