Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Pottier, Johan.

Description

1. ix, 222 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. Throughout the 1980s there have been calls for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programmes. This book offers first-hand critical assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls.

Subject

1. Applied anthropology
2. Social sciences > Methodology
3. Community development > Case studies
4. Economic development projects > Case studies
5. Community development
6. Economic development projects
7. Angewandte Anthropologie
8. Entwicklungsprojekt
9. Politikberatung
10. Sozialwissenschaften
11. Aufsatzsammlung
12. Culturele antropologie
13. Wetenschappelijke technieken
14. Angewandte Anthropologie
15. Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

1. Case studies.
2. Études de cas.

Contents

1. Introduction : development in practice : assessing social science perspectives ; The role of ethnography in project appraisal / Johan Pottier -- Agencies and young people : runaways and young homeless in Wales / Susan Hutson and Mark Liddiard -- Anthropologists or anthropology? : the Band Aid perspective on developmental projects / Bill Garber and Penny Jenden -- Anthropology and appraisal : the preparation of two IFAD pastoral developmental projects in Niger and Mali / David Seddon -- Development in Madura : an anthropological approach / Margaret Casey -- Project appraisals : the need for methodological guidelines / Geoff Griffith -- Anthropology in farming systems research : a participant observer in Zambia / Philip Gatter -- Representing knowledge : the 'new farmer' in research fashions / James Fairhead.
2. 'Eze-vu' : success through evaluation : lessons from a primary health-care project in North Yemen / Tim Morris.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.