Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vi, 208 pages; 25 cm. Notes: Contains papers presented to the second part (on "Anthropology and Policy") of the third Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth (on "Anthropology in the Eighties") at Cambridge in July 1983. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents: Applied anthropology in the 1980s: retrospect and prospect / Ralph Grillo -- An applied anthropologist in East Africa during the colonial era / P.H. Gulliver -- Anthropologists and policy in Zimbabwe: design at the centre and reactions on the periphery / A.P. Cheater -- Anthropological advice in a government context / S. Conlin -- Pleading and reading agricultural development policy: small farm, big state, and the 'case of Taiwan' / Raymond Apthorpe -- Anthropology in project management: on being useful to those who must design and operate rural water supplies / Donald Curtis -- The practical need for a socio-economic classification of tropical agrarian systems / Polly Hill -- Advocates, brokers, and collaborators: anthropologists in the real world / M.G. Whisson -- Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal Land Rights Act in Northern Australia / Robert Layton -- Research in Papua New Guinea: cross-currents of conflict / Andrew Strathern -- The organizational connection: multi-disciplinary practice and anthropological theory / Alan Rew -- Policy research and anthropological compromise: should the piper call the tune? / M.R. Redclift. Subjects: Conference. Anthropology and policy (1983: Cambridge). Conference. Anthropology in the eighties (1983: Cambridge).Applied anthropology; Congresses. Economic development Social aspects; Congresses. Genre: Bibliography. Conference publication. 3 Kg.

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Title: Social anthropology and development policy / edited by Ralph Grillo and Alan Rew
Publisher: London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0422796204
ISBN 13: 9780422796200
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st edition.
Weight: 3 kilograms

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