Anthropology and Development Understanding Comtemporary Social Change,9781842774175

Anthropology and Development Understanding Comtemporary Social Change

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ISBN13: 9781842774175
ISBN10: 1842774174
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Pub. Date: 2005-04-02
Publisher(s): Zed Books
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Summary

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. 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction The three approaches in the anthropology of development
1(22)
The discourse of development
3(5)
Populism, anthropology and development
8(3)
The entangled social logic approach
11(4)
Conclusion: the future of the entangled social logic approach and its work in progress (research in Africa and beyond)
15(8)
2 Socio-anthropology of development Some preliminary statements
23(19)
Development
24(3)
Socio-anthropology of development
27(4)
Comparativism
31(4)
Action
35(1)
Populism
35(2)
A collective problematic
37(1)
Social change and development: in Africa or in general?
37(5)
3 Anthropology, sociology, Africa and development A brief historical overview
42(16)
French colonial ethnology
42(3)
Reactions: dynamic and/or Marxist anthropology
45(1)
From a sociological viewpoint: sociology of modernization and sociology of development
46(2)
Systems analysis
48(3)
The current situation: multi-rationalities
51(7)
4 A renewal of anthropology?
58(10)
To the rescue of social science?
59(1)
The 'properties' of 'development facts'
60(1)
Two heuristic points of view
61(3)
Anthropology of social change and development and the fields of anthropology
64(4)
5 Stereotypes, ideologies and conceptions
68(21)
A meta-ideology of development
70(1)
Infra-ideologies: conceptions
71(2)
Five stereotypes
73(8)
The relative truth of stereotypes: the example of 'culture'
81(4)
The propensity for stereotypes: the example of 'needs'
85(4)
6 Is an anthropology of innovation possible?
89(21)
A panorama in four points of view
91(12)
Is an innovations problematic possible in anthropology ?
103(4)
Innovation as a way in
107(3)
7 Developmentalist populism and social science populism Ideology, action, knowledge
110(16)
Intellectuals and their ambiguous populism
111(1)
The poor according to Chambers
112(1)
The developmentalist populist complex
113(2)
Moral populism
115(1)
Cognitive populism and methodological populism
116(1)
Ideological populism
117(1)
Populism and miserabilism
118(2)
Where action becomes compromise
120(2)
...and where knowledge can become opposition...
122(2)
...yet methodology should combine!
124(2)
8 Relations of production and modes of economic action
126(11)
Songhay-Zarma societies under colonization: peasant mode of production and relations of production
126(2)
Subsistence logic during the colonial period
128(3)
Relations of production and contemporary transformations
131(3)
Conclusion
134(3)
9 Development projects and social logic
137(16)
The context of interaction
139(1)
Levels of project coherence
140(2)
Peasant reactions
142(2)
Two principles
144(1)
Three logics, among many others
145(4)
Strategic logics and notional logics
149(4)
10 Popular knowledge and scientific and technical knowledge 153(13)
Popular technical knowledge
154(2)
A few properties of popular technical knowledge
156(3)
Popular technical knowledge and technical-scientific knowledge
159(2)
Fields of popular knowledge and infrastructure
161(5)
11 Mediations and brokerage 166(19)
Development agents
166(2)
A parenthesis on corruption
168(1)
Development agents as mediators between types of knowledge
168(5)
Brokers
173(5)
The development language
178(7)
12 Arenas and strategic groups 185(13)
Local development as a political arena
185(3)
Conflict, arena, strategic groups
188(4)
The ECRIS framework
192(6)
13 Conclusion The dialogue between social scientists and developers 198(19)
Logic of knowledge and logic of action
198(3)
Two models to be rejected
201(1)
Third model: action research?
201(2)
Fourth model: the contractual solution
203(1)
Training development agents
204(1)
Adapting to sidetracking
205(3)
On enquiry
208(4)
Socio-anthropology of development and anthropology applied to development: one instance and its limit
212(5)
Bibliography 217(19)
Index 236

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