The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Prelims......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization......Page 11
Part I Classical Foundations and Debates......Page 85
Introduction......Page 87
1 Of the Accumulation of Capital, or of Productive and......Page 97
2 Manifesto of the Communist Party......Page 101
3 The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit......Page 105
4 The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities:
Labor, Land, and Money......Page 109
Part II What is Development? 20th-Century Debates......Page 115
Introduction......Page 117
5 The Rise and Fall of Development Theory......Page 119
6 The History and Politics of Development Knowledge......Page 136
7 Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: ‘‘Development’’ in the Constitution
of a Discipline......Page 150
Part III From Development to Globalization......Page 165
Introduction......Page 167
8 Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization:
The Transformations of Violence......Page 170
9 The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification......Page 179
10 Globalization After September 11......Page 183
11 Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism......Page 187
Part IV Consumption, Markets, Culture......Page 199
Introduction......Page 201
12 Agricultural Involution Revisited......Page 204
13 Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa......Page 216
14 Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural
Developmentalism......Page 226
15 A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation......Page 234
16 Seeing Culture as a Barrier......Page 242
Part V Gender, Work, and Networks......Page 245
Introduction......Page 247
17 ‘‘Men-streaming’’ Gender? Questions for Gender and Development
Policy in the Twenty-first Century......Page 250
18 Deterritorialization and Workplace Culture......Page 260
19 The Network Inside Out......Page 272
Part VI Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology......Page 279
Introduction......Page 281
20 Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories
in Kalimantan, Indonesia......Page 283
21 Misreading Africa’s Forest History......Page 292
22 Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous
DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project......Page 302
Part VII Inside Development Institutions......Page 311
Introduction......Page 313
23 Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion......Page 316
24 Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development......Page 323
25 The Social Organization of the IMF’s Mission Work......Page 333
Part VIII Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development......Page 345
Introduction......Page 347
26 Imagining a Post-Development Era......Page 351
27 Beyond Development?......Page 362
28 Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty......Page 370
29 Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State......Page 378
30 What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?......Page 383
31 ‘‘Disappearing the Poor?’’ A Critique of the New Wisdoms of Social
Democracy in an Age of Globalization......Page 392
Index......Page 401