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Grillo, R D

Discourses of development : anthropological perspectives / R D Grillo - Oxford : Berg ; 1997. - ix, 299 p.

Contents:
1. Discourses of Development: The View from Anthropology / R. D. Grillo
2. Webs of Power and the Construction of Environmental Policy Problems: Forest Loss in Guinea / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach
3. The Silent Traditions of Developing Cooks / Emma Crewe
4. The Donors' Discourse: Official Social Development Knowledge in the 1980s / Alan Rew
5. Watching the Developers: A Partial Ethnography / Georgia Kaufmann
6. Mixed Messages: Contested 'Development' and the 'Plantation Rehabilitation Project' / Katy Gardner
7. Gender Politics, Development and Women's Agency in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan and Kavita Srivastava
8. Three Critical Issues in Community Health Development Projects in Kenya / David O. Nyamwaya
9. Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal and Research / Johan Pottier
10. Alternative Vocabularies of Development? 'Community' and 'Participation' in Development Discourse in Sri Lanka / Michael D. Woost.
11. The Ideology and Politics of Community Participation: Tank Irrigation Development in Colonial and Contemporary Tamil Nadu / David Mosse.


ISBN: 9781859739457 1859739458

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Economic Development - Social Aspects
Economic Anthropology

Dewey Class. No.: 338.9 GRI