The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism

Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud.

Part I: Classical Foundations:.

Introduction.

1. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or Of Productive and Unproductive Labor: Adam Smith.

2. Manifesto of the Communist Party:Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

3. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit:Max Weber.

4. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money: Karl Polyani.

Part II: What is “Development”? Twentieth-Century Debates:.

Introduction.

5. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory: Colin Leys.

6. The History and Politics of Development Knowledge: Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard.

7. Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the Constitution of a Discipline: James Ferguson.

Part III: From Development to Globalization:.

Introduction.

8. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence: Jonathan Friedman.

9. The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification: David Graeber.

10. Globalization After September 11: Saskia Sassen.

11. Millennial Capitalismand the Culture of Neoliberalism: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff.

Part IV: Consumption, Markets, Culture:.

Introduction.

12. Agricultural Involution Revisited:Clifford Geertz.

13. Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa: Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan.

14. Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism: Louisa Schein.

15. A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation: Daniel Miller.

16. Is Culture a Barrier to Change?: Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison.

Part V: Gender, Work, and Networks:.

Introduction.

17. “Men-streaming” Gender? Question for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century: Sylvia Chant and Matthew Gutmann.

18. Deterritorialziation and Workplace Culture: Jane Collins.

19. The Network Inside Out:Annelise Riles.

Part VI: Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology:.

Introduction.

20. Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia: Nancy Lee Peluso.

21. Misreading the African Landscape:Melissa Leach and James Fairhead.

22. Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project:Hilary Cunningham.

Part VII: Inside Development Institutions:.

23. Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion: Jonathan Fox.

24. Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development:.

Emery Roe.

25. The Social Organization of the IMF’s Mission Work:.

Richard Harper.

Part VIII: Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development?:.

Introduction.

26. Imagining a Post-Development Era: Arturo Escobar.

27. Beyond Development?:Katy Gardner and David Lewis.

28. Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty: Elizabeth Isichei.

29. Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State: Barbara Chasin and Richard Franke.

30. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?:Katherine Verdery.

31. Disappearing the Poor?: John Gledhil.

Index