Chapter-Related Readings

An overview of case studies, policies, assessments, and recommendations concerning tribal peoples and development.

Bodley, J. H., ed.. (1988). Tribal Peoples and Development Issues: A Global Overview.. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

First collection of articles by social scientists based on World Bank files and project experiences. Examines development successes and failures and the social and cultural reasons for them.

Cernea, M., ed.. (1991). Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development, 2nd ed.. New York: Oxford University Press (published for the World Bank).

The social complexity of colonial encounters is explored in several articles.

Cooper, F., and A. L. Stoler, eds.. (1997). Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

A critique of economic development and development anthropology.

Escobar, A.. (1995). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

The role of a traditional priesthood in managing irrigation and culturally appropriate economic development in Bali, Indonesia.

Lansing, J. S.. (1991). Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

The untapped power of women in developing countries.

Nussbaum, M. C.. (2000). Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach.. New York: Cambridge University Press.

How to overcome generalized inequities between men and women in the less-developed countries.

Nussbaum, M., and J. Glover, eds.. (1995). Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities.. New York: Oxford University Press.

One in a series on the anthropology of Asia.

Van Bremen, J., and A. Shimizu, eds.. (1999). Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania.. London: Curzon.

Examines the nature of development processes and critiques existing theories.

Worsley, P.. (1984). The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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