Anthropology and Development

Katy Gardner is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author of Global Migrants, Local Lives (Oxford University Press, 1995), Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012) and Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015).David Lewis is Professor of Social Policy and Development in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He is the author of Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (CUP, 2012), co-author of Anthropology and Development (Pluto, 2015) and co-editor of The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).

• Series PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossaryAcronymsPrelude: Development, Post-Development and More Development?1. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice into the Twenty-First Century2. Applying Anthropology3. The Anthropology of Development4. Anthropologists in Development: Access, Effects and Control5. When Good Ideas Turn Bad: The Dominant Discourse Bites BackConclusion: Anthropology, Development and Twenty-First Century ChallengesNotesBibliographyIndex

'Ameliorates the despair which students of development often feel once they come to understand the complexity, and the vested interests, of the aid industry'