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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthropology of Public Policy sees the community in a global and national view, raises a statement saying that society itself is policy making, and asks what societies can achieve if they did things differently. The book is divided into five parts. Part I: Policy and Anthropology discusses the challenge of policy and explains how anthropology is a social science. Part II: Analysis of World Society covers the analysis and policy of the village universe; the urban contribution; elements of the nation state; international connections, and the ''supra-nation''. Part III: Movement in the Social System includes the innovation and genesis of ideas; resources and their management; change, conflict, and resistance. Part IV: Styles of Action discusses the process of technical assistance; politics and conflict; the relationship between the politician and the social scientist; the mastery of judgment; and the organization of social sciences. Part V: Values and Options talks about the values choice, and the problems of science. The text is recommended for sociologists, anthropologists, and politicians, especially those who would like to know the importance of the social studies, its relation to society and politics, and the global community.

This study concerns the differentials of economic growth among the Fijian people. It brings together relevant factors drawn from social, cultural, economic and political analysis. As a case study in economic growth, it portrays the interplay between individuals and the social and economic conditions which surround them, and demonstrates the limitations of the institutions within which they function. Controversial points of interpretation are discussed and supported with documentation gathered from field-work. Originally published in 1964

The viewpoint of a soc & cultural anthrop'st is presented in an overview on this discipline's approach to development. 3 terms & 2 spheres of scholarly activity are noted as important: the terms of 'growth,' 'performance,' & 'development;' & the spheres of macro-analysis of soc processes & empirical field studies. Some development propositions of general currency are considered, eg, that development implies change involving new objectives, ideas, methods, forms of relationship, that nat'lism is detrimental to some development, that the structure of developed countries may affect the position of developing countries, etc. In this context, the contributions of anthrop to the role of educ'al policy, sci'fic & technological policies, COMM, & cultural policy are reviewed. It can be most useful in the analysis of the most appropriate, or optimal, development strategy & in promoting development action by assessing the most effective way of creating particular projects & the results & ramifications of these projects. 3 recommendations are made: improve the supply of indigenous anthrop'ts in developing countries & ensure the recognition of their contribution in U's & gov service; call upon anthrop'ts in developed countries to orient their work in developing countries toward providing maximum support for the growth of sci in the countries concerned; & create an interdisciplinary profession of development advisers who do not have to know everything in one given discipline, but something about several disciplines. Soc sci'ts should devise an interdisciplinary curriculum for training such SE advisers. M. Maxfield.