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Article: Anthropologie de developpement: essai en socioanthropologie du changement social.
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JEAN-PIERRE OLIVIER DE SARDAN, Anthropologie de developpement: essai en socioanthropologie du changement social. Paris: Karthala/APAD, 1995, 221 pp., ISBN 2 86537 589 7.
The aim of this book is to emancipate the anthropology of development. Olivier de Sardan tries to show that the current distinction between applied and scientific anthropology is highly detrimental to both. Development anthropology should be good anthropology, part of the mainstream of the discipline and not just a cheap variant. But it is at the same time a crucial challenge to both anthropology and sociology, because it forces both disciplines to confront the heterogeneity of social logics and the ...