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This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of modernity and development supported by original case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala.
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While the diffusion of modernity and the spread of development schemes may bring prosperity, optimism and opportunity for some, for others it has brought poverty, a deterioration in quality of life and has given rise to violence. This collection brings an anthropological perspective to bear on understanding the diverse modernities we face in the contemporary world. It provides a critical review of interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from regions as diverse as Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West Africa and contemporary Europe.
Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. Ethnography can show how peoples own agency transforms, recasts and complicates the modernities they experience.
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This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of modernity and development supported by original case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala.
From the Back Cover
While the diffusion of modernity and the spread of development schemes may bring prosperity, optimism and opportunity for some, for others it has brought poverty, a deterioration in quality of life and has given rise to violence. This collection brings an anthropological perspective to bear on understanding the diverse modernities we face in the contemporary world. It provides a critical review of interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from regions as diverse as Guatemala, Sri Lanka, West Africa and contemporary Europe.
Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. Ethnography can show how peoples own agency transforms, recasts and complicates the modernities they experience.
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After a long period when development economics, normative policy debates and political science dominated the field of development studies, the 1990s have ushered in a more open intellectual climate which is more receptive to locating the analysis of development within theoretical frameworks that deal explicitly with the dynamics of cross-cultural practices, meanings and discourses. Read the first page
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After a long period when development economics, normative policy debates and political science dominated the field of development studies, the 1990s have ushered in a more open intellectual climate which is more receptive to locating the analysis of development within theoretical frameworks that deal explicitly with the dynamics of cross-cultural practices, meanings and discourses. Read the first page
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