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Whose development?: an ethnography of aid

Paperback • 1998

Whose development?: an ethnography of aid

By Emma Crewe, Elizabeth Harrison

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About the book

The 'anthropology of development' is already challenging the received wisdom of development thought and practice. In this book, Crewe and Harrison build on existing work by using their own experience of aid projects in Africa and Asia to examine a number of deep-seated assumptions in the minds of 'developers'. Flawed notions about progress, gender, technology, partnership, motivation, culture and race persist, and there are yawning gaps between these and the policies and actual practices of deve...Show more

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