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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Ethnographic practice and public aid: methods and meanings in development cooperation
Editors:Hagberg, StenISNI
Widmark, Charlotta
Year:2009
Issue:45
Pages:305
Language:English
Series:Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology (ISSN 0348-5099)
City of publisher:Uppsala
Publisher:Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
ISBN:9789155475604
Geographic terms:developing countries
Burkina Faso
Kenya
Niger
Tanzania
Zanzibar
Subjects:anthropology
development cooperation
Abstract:This book explores the interface of anthropology and development with a particular focus on how anthropologists working in development cooperation settings use, apply and interact with theory and method. The aim is to bring anthropologists' experiences from development practice back to the discipline of anthropology itself. Several chapters are based on experiences from working with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). Five of the twelve chapters are based on experiences in Africa: Per Brandström reflects on his experiences in the field in Tanzania since the 1960s; Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan examines practical norms in the delivery of public goods and services in Niger; based on fieldwork in Zanzibar, Eva Tobisson struggles with notions of poverty and wealth, as well as with the relevance of policy in relation to local perspectives and experiences; with examples from his work in Burkina Faso, Sten Hagberg pinpoints the anonymous development contexts and the difficulties for anthropologists of getting a role beyond that of provider of success stories; Hans Hedlund tells the story of the involvement of the Institute of Cultural Affairs, an American NGO, in Kenyan development projects. [ASC Leiden abstract]