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In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This essential textbook reveals anthropologists' often surprising findings and details ethnographic case studies on the cultures of development. The authors use a fertile literature to examine the socio-political organisation of aid communities, agencies and networks, as well as the judgements they make about each other. The everyday practice of development work is about negotiating power and culture, but in vastly different ways in different contexts and for different social groups. Exploring the spaces between policy and practice, success and failure, the future and the past, this book provides a rounded understanding of development work that suggests new moral and political possibilities for an increasingly globalised world.

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Anthropology and Politics: From Naïveté Toward Liberation? -- SECTION TWO: COLONIALISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- The Counterrevolutionary Tradition in African Studies: The Case of Applied Anthropology -- Anthropologists and Their Terminologies: A Critical Review -- Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter -- SECTION THREE: SEXISM IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- Viricentrism and Anthropology -- Aboriginal Woman: Male and Female Anthropological Perspectives -- Women, Development, and Anthropological Facts and Fictions -- SECTION FOUR: "ETHICAL QUESTION" OR "POLITICAL CHOICE"? -- Colonial and Postcolonial Anthropology of Africa: Scholarship or Sentiment? -- Social Reality and the Anthropologists -- The Relevance of Contemporary Economic Anthropology -- Notes on the Present-Day State of Anthropology in the Third World -- Anthropology = Ideology, Applied Anthropology = Politics -- SECTION FIVE: FROM "ACADEMIC COLONIALISM" TO "COMMITTED ANTHROPOLOGY -- The Social Responsibility of Anthropological Science in the Context of Contemporary Brazil -- The Meaning of Wounded Knee, 1973: Indian Self-Government and the Role of Anthropology -- From Applied to Committed Anthropology: Disengaging from Our Colonialist Heritage -- SECTION SIX: DILEMMAS OF ACTION RESEARCH AND COMMITMENT -- Anthropology, "Snooping," and Commitment: A View from Papua New Guinea -- Anthropology in Melanesia: Retrospect and Prospect -- Is Useful Action Research Possible? -- How Can Revolutionary Anthropology Be Practiced? -- The Role of the Anthropologist in Minority Education: The Chicano Case -- SECTION SEVEN: TOWARD A VIEW FROM BELOW AND FROM WITHIN -- Participant Observation or Partisan Participation? -- On Objectivity in Fieldwork -- Breaking Through the Looking Glass: The View from Below -- On Being a Native Anthropologist.

Introduction : The blur : balancing applied anthropology, activism, and self vis-a-vis immigrant communities / Alayne Unterberger -- Engaging with the immigrant human rights movement in a besieged border region : what do applied social scientists bring to the policy process? / Josiah McC. Heyman, Maria Cristina Morales, and Guillermina Gina Núñez -- Immigrants fleeing a dying industry : applying rapid ethnographic assessment procedures to the study of tobacco farmworkers / David Griffith -- Juramentos and Madas : traditional Catholic practices and substance abuse in Mexican communities of southeastern Pennsylvania / Víctor García and Laura González -- The soccer wars : Hispanic immigrants in conflict and adaptation at the soccer borderzone / Tim Wallace -- Life in the 813 : one day a migrant student, the next a gangster / Alayne Unterberger -- Thirty cans of beef stew and a thong : anthropologist as academic, administrator, and activist in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Konane M. Martínez -- Inventing a public anthropology with Latino farm labor organizers in North Carolina / Sandy Smith-Nonini -- Biosketches of authors

This article introduces the Journal of Political Ecology Special Section on 'towards a political ecology of applied anthropology.' We provide a brief overview and analysis of the history and application of applied and practicing anthropology. Examining moral and ethical issues related to the application of anthropology, we assess current endeavors and make suggestions for future directions from a political ecology perspective. Introducing five articles that exemplify our approach, we identify common themes and particular contexts that both unify and distinguish each of the contributions. Throughout this introduction, we propose a potential guidepost for a political-ecology informed applied anthropology: any applied anthropology that engages, documents, promotes, and supports cultural diversity, social justice and environmental sustainability is just. Conversely, any applied anthropology that threatens cultural diversity and environmental sustainability is unjust.Key words: applied anthropology, imperialism, political ecology, neoliberalism, ethics

This article introduces the Journal of Political Ecology Special Section on 'towards a political ecology of applied anthropology.' We provide a brief overview and analysis of the history and application of applied and practicing anthropology. Examining moral and ethical issues related to the application of anthropology, we assess current endeavors and make suggestions for future directions from a political ecology perspective. Introducing five articles that exemplify our approach, we identify common themes and particular contexts that both unify and distinguish each of the contributions. Throughout this introduction, we propose a potential guidepost for a political-ecology informed applied anthropology: any applied anthropology that engages, documents, promotes, and supports cultural diversity, social justice and environmental sustainability is just. Conversely, any applied anthropology that threatens cultural diversity and environmental sustainability is unjust.Key words: applied anthropology, imperialism, political ecology, neoliberalism, ethics

"American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself. Contributors analyze the interplay between anthropology and history, in particular how American colonialism affected anthropologists' use of history, and examine the research that has been conducted by American anthropologists in specific topical areas of socio-cultural anthropology. Although concentrating largely on disciplinary concerns, the authors consider the connections between work done in the era of applied anthropology and that completed later when anthropology was pursued mainly for its own sake. The focus then returns to applied concerns in more recent years and issues pertaining to the relevance of anthropology for the world of practical affairs. It will be of essential interest to students and scholars of Pacific Islands studies and the history of anthropology."--Jacket

Anthropology of law as a science -- - History, schools, and names of anthropology of law -- Concepts of cultural anthropology -- Social norms (fora) : the theory of law, morals, custom, etiquette, habits, religious norms, political force, conscience -- Theories of culture and cultures -- - Analyses in cultural anthropology -- Biological anthropology in its relation to the anthropology of law -- Kinship patterns, and other anthropological aspects of family and gender law -- Societal order, personhood, and human rights : the anthropology of constitutional justice -- Reciprocity, exchange, gifts, contracting, trust : the anthropology of commutative justice -- Possession, ownership, probate; market and non-market economies, antitrust, cultural property and heritage of mankind : the anthropology of distributive justice -- Torts, crimes, sanctions. Witchcraft and related issues : the anthropology of compensatory or retributive justice -- Jurisdiction. Procedure and dispute settlement. Conflicts of law : the anthropology of jurisdictional justice, of procedural justice, and of conflicts justice -- Native American law -- Ethnic groups. The international law of indigenous peoples. Global human rights -- Applied anthropology of law

Introduction : toward reciprocal anthropology / Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers -- Homeless people (Paris, Los Angeles) : the principle of equality seen from below / Patrick Gaboriau -- The moral public sphere : integration and discrimination in a French new town / Beth Epstein -- Creolization, racial imagination and the music market in French Louisiana / Sara Le Menestrel -- Claiming culture, defending culture : perspectives on culture in France and the United States / David Beriss -- Gay activism and the question of community / William Poulin-Deltour -- Confronting "community": from social space in rural France to the Vietnamese diaspora / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Healing the community : ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States / Stefania Capone -- Healing at the foot of the Twin Towers : beyond the trauma of 9/11 / Anne Raulin -- To live in a world of possibilities : a new age version of the American myth / Christian Ghasarian -- Faux amis in the countryside : deciphering the familiar / Susan Carol Rogers.