Whose Development?: An Ethnography of Aid

by Elizabeth Harrison and Emma Crewe

Book Overview

This book is an ethnography of development in practice. It builds on recent work in the anthropology of development in its examination of the evolution and persistence of a number of key ideas about gender, technology and race. It explores how these are rooted in both material practices and ideologies, notably the Enlightenment and colonialism, but goes beyond previous studies which have tended to focus mainly on the apparently monolithic power of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856496066
• ISBN13: 9781856496063
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"