This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In recent years anthropologists have produced innovative and critical scholarship that refuses to simplify or essentialise the development ...

Development anthropologists embody a niche existence that is not always easy to navigate. There are naysayers and antagonists to the discipline on all sides of the political field; the hegemonic ...

Anthropology is an age-old, at times complex discipline, and like many others, it suffers from its fair share of in-fighting and disagreement. It’s also a discipline shrouded in mystery. Few people ...

Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 67, No. 1 (SPRING 2011), pp. 27-46 (20 pages) One of the main challenges faced by anthropologists and practitioners who work in international development is ...

Anthropology and development are tightly entwined. This programme brings together essential elements of both. It combines crucial anthropological insights into, and critiques of economic globalisation ...

The field of anthropology is often associated with finding lost tribes, understanding ancient civilizations, and the study of indigenous peoples. However, researchers in Norway argue that anthropology ...

I congratulate Prof Augustus Nuwagaba for not only giving the national planners and economic policy-makers the diagnosis but also a prescription for planning growth and transformation. Much of the ...

While teaching his "Human Adaptation" class, Princeton University anthropology professor Alan Mann motioned with his arms and legs as he explained the evolution of human joints from earlier ...

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Only approximately 50 of the nearly 400 effigy mounds remain in the state of Iowa. The mounds tell the story of Iowa’s prehistoric past, serving both as a visible reminder of the past as well as ...