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Anthropology and Development : Understanding Contemporary Social Change by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions.<br><br>The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
- Publisher
- Zed Books, Limited
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281258755
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Sociology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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