| colonialism | The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
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| development anthropology | The branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, economic development.
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| equity, increased | A reduction in absolute poverty and a fairer (more even) distribution of wealth.
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| green revolution | Agricultural development based on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, 20th-century cultivation techniques, and new crop varieties such as IR-8 (“miracle rice”).
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| intervention philosophy | Guiding principle of colonialism, conquest, missionization, or development; an ideological justification for outsiders to guide native peoples in specific directions.
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| overinnovation | Characteristic of projects that require major changes in natives’ daily lives, especially ones that interfere with customary subsistence pursuits.
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| postcolonial | Referring to interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized (mainly after 1800); more generally, “postcolonial” may be used to signify a position against imperialism and Eurocentrism.
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| underdifferentiation | Planning fallacy of viewing less-developed countries as an undifferentiated group; ignoring cultural diversity and adopting a uniform approach (often ethnocentric) for very different types of project beneficiaries.
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