Anthropology and Development in South-East Asia: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Victor T. King

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
Series: South-East Asian social science monographs
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to examine the relationships between anthropology and development for the South-East Asian region as a whole.
Knowledge of social and cultural life has become increasingly important as development practitioners acknowledge that engineered change is not merely a technical and economic activity.
King argues that there is a constant interaction between anthropological theory and practice, and that the anthropologist at work makes frequent reference to the concepts and methods of the discipline

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