Discovered thanks to Asgeir,
a great friend who studied with me at LSE.
I studied Anthro at the
University of Chicago with Professors Da Cuhna, Kolata and Fernandez.
I am looking forwards to
dealing with real life development issues
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Anthropology of Development
A University of Chicago
Master Thesis, under the supervision of Professor Kolata:
Change
at the World Bank: actors, factors and facts
Economic Development is the primary objective of most governments in the World. The 'Development' discourse really took off in the aftermath of the Second World War and is now dominant. Still its implications for developing countries are far from uniformly beneficial. Here is a review of James Ferguson famous powerful criticism of the 'development industry':
Robert McC. Netting gives a powerful blow to the received western wisdom that traditional cultivators of developing countries must be taught how to farm with machines and scientific knowledge.
Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable
Agriculture
The revolution in Chiapas has been widely publicized by the media as an icon of Maya rebellion against politically organized poverty. Here is the critical review of Professor George A. Collier's famous study of the Zapatista movement.
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Anthropology of Amazonia
Case studies of two societies and
their implications for Structuralism: