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Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more rigidly technocratic. The authors insist on a focus upon the core anthropological issues surrounding poverty and inequality, and thus sharply criticise what are perceived as problems in the field. Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten edition of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge (1996). It serves as both an innovative reformulation of the field, as well as a textbook for many undergraduate and graduate courses at leading international universities.

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The book can help to ameliorate the despair which students of development often feel once they come to understand the complexity, and the vested interests, of the aid industry -- LSE Magazine An authoritative and up to date overview that combines accurate and insightful overviews of the major contributions in the field with their own original and illuminating arguments. -- Professor James Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

In this revised account (not just an new edition but a comprehensive reworking of their influential 1996 volume) Katy Gardner and David Lewis provide an authoritative and up to date overview of the dynamic field of encounter that is anthropology and development. Combining accurate and insightful overviews of the major contributions in the field with their own original and illuminating arguments, they offer a valuable resource for understanding both development interventions and the issues of poverty, inequality, political conflict and social transformation with which they are inevitably bound up. -- Professor James Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

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Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author of Global Migrants, Local Lives (Oxford University Press, 1995), Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012) and Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015). David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He is the author of Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (CUP, 2012), co-author of Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015) and co-editor of The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).

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