Adventures in Aid Land The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development - Studies in Applied Anthropology

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development's discursive regimes but, oddly enough, have paid scant attention to knowledge producers themselves, despite anthropologists being among them. This is the focus of this volume. It concerns the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction but is equally interested in the social life of development professionals, in the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, in networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and in the dilemmas of maintaining professional identities. Going well beyond obsolete debates about 'pure' and 'applied' anthropology, the book examines the transformations that occur as social scientific concepts and practices cross and re-cross the boundary between anthropological and policy making knowledge.

ISBN:	9781782380634
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Published date:	15 Apr 2013
DEWEY:	331.76133891
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	248
Weight:	378g
Height:	228mm
Width:	157mm
Spine width:	14mm

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