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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Anthropology, Development, and Change in East Africa -- 1 Putting Women in the Development Agenda: Agricultural Development in Malawi -- 2 lineage, District, and Nation: Politics in Uganda's Bugisu Cooperative Union -- 3 Farmers, Cooperatives, and Development Assistancein Uganda: An Anthropological Perspective -- 4 Food Aid and Development in Rural Kenya -- 5 Drought and Famine Management in Kitui District, Kenya -- 6 Insect and Weed Control in Subsistence Farming Systems: Western Kenya -- 7 Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Agricultural Research in Rwanda -- 8 Issues in Agricultural Change: Case Study from Ismani, Iringa Region, Tanzania -- 9 Changing Perceptions of Pastoral Development: A Case Study from Turkana District, Kenya -- 10 Planning for Population Change in Kenya: An Anthropological Perspective -- 11 Women's Groups Near the Kenyan Coast: Patron-Clientship in the Development Arena -- 12 Anthropology, Nutrition, and the Design of a Health Intervention Program in Western Kenya -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

This article explores some of the challenges and potentials that the emerging phenomenon of South-South cooperation (SSC) might pose to major approaches in the international literature on the anthropology of development. Irrespective of particular politico-conceptual preferences, the latter's analytics have been largely crafted based on ethnographic work about development aid provided by Northern agencies or North-led multilateral organizations. Based on my own fieldwork experience with Brazil's contemporary provision of official technical cooperation in tropical agriculture to various countries in the African continent, I propose a discussion about four sets of themes: Foucauldian approaches to development based on notions of governmentality and discourse; the associated question of politics/depoliticization; the institutional aspect of development cooperation as a national and global industry and bureaucracy; and the question of ethnographic authority and the transit between what David Mosse has referred to as field (relations entertained with informants during fieldwork) and desk (relations entertained with academic peers during ethnographic writing).

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 406 pp.