MA in Development Studies

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 510
• Course: MA in Development Studies
• Semester: II
• Title: Development Anthropology
• Stream: Archaeology

• The Discourse of Development; Populism, Anthropology and Development; The social logic approach: Norman Long and the rural Anthropology of Development; Socio-anthropology of development: Comparativism: Multiculturalism: Transversality; Role of values and Institutions in Development; Role of Indigenious Knowledge; Anthropologists as Policy Advisers and analysts; Assessment of Social Impact: Evaluation, Advocacy, Technology Development Research.

  Text Books:

  1. S. Abram, and J. Waldren. (eds.) (1998), Anthropological Perspectives on Loca Development: Knowledge and Sentiment in Conflict. New York: Routledge.

  2. A. Alberto and N. Long. (2000), Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence. London: Routledge.

  3. ______, 2000, �Reconfiguring Modernity and Development from an Anthropological Perspective.� In Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies and Violence. Edited by A. Alberto and N. Long, London: Routledge.

  4.B. J. Knippers, 1999, Development in Theory and Practice, 2^nd Ed. Boulder: Westview.

  5. _____, 1993, Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.

  6. D. Booth, 1994, Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice. Essex: Longman Scientific & Technical.

  7. J. Pierre and O. de Sardan, 2005, Anthropology and Development. London: Zed Books

  8. L. Mair, 1984, Anthropology and Development. London: Macmillan.

  9. W.W Rostow, 1960, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  10. E.F. Schumacher, 1973, Small is Beautiful. London: Blond and Briggs.

   

  Reference books

   

  1. E. Croll, and D. J. Parkin, eds.,1992. Bush base, forest farm: culture, environment and development. London: Routledge.

  2. E. Crewe and Harrison, Ed. Whose Development? London: Zed 1998
  3. A. Escobar, 1995. Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the Third World.

  Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  4. R.D. Grillo, and R.L. Stirrat, (eds.), 1997. Discourses of development: anthropological perspectives.

  Oxford: Berg.Schech, Susan; Haggis, Jane, 2000, Culture, and development: a critical introduction. Oxford: Blackwell

  5. D. Warren, L. Michael, J. Slikkerveer, and D. Brokensha, (eds.), 1995, The Cultural Dimension of Development:Indigenous Knowledge Systems. London: Intermediate Technology

  Publications.

  6. A. Sen, 1999, Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor/Random House.