This review examines how international development has been studied by anthropologists,
both as a particular form of institutional practice and as the terms of global economic and …

The debates on the sustainability of development have a long history. Although the
Brundtland Report popularized “sustainable development”, this slippery concept sidelined …

The program presents anthropology's core concepts and also demonstrates anthropology's
relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. Key themes of appreciating the experiences …

" Following the dramatic and violent conclusion of the 26-year old civil war in May 2009, Sri
Lanka faces a new'ground-zero'moment. The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam …

The relationship between anthropology and development has long been one fraught with
difficulty, ever since Bronislaw Malinowski advocated a role for anthropologists as policy …

This paper places the anthropology of learning in conversation with the anthropology of
work by unpacking the interrelationship between the processes by which a skill is learned …

What happens when an alternative economy becomes subject to a state bureaucratic
apparatus? The question is posed in the context of a state project in Ecuador to …

The 2015 Paris declaration obligated international development organizations to assess the
climate compatibility of their projects. For irrigation projects, like those negotiated between …

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen
essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book
critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While …