Anthropology, Development and Modernities
Subtitle: Exploring Discourses, Counter Tendencies and Violence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 2, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415205009
First sentence: 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.