Introducing the book "Developmental Anthropology: History, Theory and Practical Tools"

For anthropology, development is not only a goal to strive for but also a broad subject of anthropology in three aspects: research, application and practice. Anthropologists often emphasize that development is not a single event but development is a process that includes many understandings, many concepts, many contents, many entities, many levels, many regions and has a history of many decades. Thus, development includes many different dimensions: housing, sanitation, health, clean water, education, food security, conservation, employment, empowerment, poverty reduction, the ability to influence policy making and many other issues. Anthropology's interest and engagement with development also includes different ways and levels, which can be generalized into three basic directions. The first direction is that academic anthropologists take development issues as the object of research (anthropological research on development). The second direction is that anthropologists apply anthropological knowledge and methods to solve problems of development practice (application of anthropology in development). The third direction is that anthropologists participate in policy making, policy management, policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policies/programs/projects (practice of anthropology in development).

The studies collected in this book address all three of the above-mentioned developmental approaches of anthropology from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives. This is a collection of articles that will help anthropology students and readers gain a deeper and more systematic understanding of an important area of ​​the discipline: Development Anthropology.

Index

Introduction: What is developmental anthropology?

Nguyen Van Suu

Part 1: History and Theory

1. Reaffirming Applied Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future

Barabara Rylko-Bauer, Merrill Singer, John van Willigen

2. The challenges of applied anthropology

Paul Sillitoe

3. Anthropology in development

John van Willigen, Elaine Drew, Carol Jo Evans, Elizabeth Williams

4. Discourses on Development: An Anthropological Perspective

RD Grillo

5. From Participant Observation to Participant Development: Making Anthropology Work

Paul Sillitoe

6. The Role of Ethnography: The Role of Ethnography in Project Evaluation

Johan Pottier

7. Anthropology and Development: Critical Frameworks

Thomas Yarrow and Soumhya Venkatesan

8. Sustainable Livelihoods Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis of Development and Poverty Reduction

Nguyen Van Suu

Part 2: Practical tools

9. Overview of the social impact assessment process

John Western and Mark Lynch

10. Participatory Rural Appraisal

John van Willigen, Hussein Mahmoud

11. Action Research and Participatory Action Research

Elaine Drew, Wini P. Utari, John van Willigen

12. Collaborative research

John van Willigen

13. Cultural Broker

John van Willigen

14. Cultural action

Barbara A. Cellarius, Deborah Crooks, Patricia Kannapel, Julianna McDonald, Cynthia Reeves, John van Willigen

15. Social Marketing

John van Willigen

16. Development projects and land conflicts: Some issues of anthropological research methodology

Nguyen Van Suu