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Title Anthropology and development in North Africa and the Middle East / edited by Muneera Salem-Murdock and Michael M. Horowitz, with Monica Sella
Published New York, NY. : Routledge, 2018
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (373 pages)
Series Monographs in development anthropology
Monographs in development anthropology (Boulder, Colo.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Brokering Social Science in Development: Experiences in Morocco -- 2 Slash-and-Burn Cultivation, Charcoal Making, and Emigration from the Highlands of Northwest Morocco -- 3 Farm Size and Agricultural Credit in Morocco: Correcting Distorted Information in the Development Process -- 4 Water-User Associations in Rural Central Tunisia -- 5 Household Production Organization and Differential Access to Resources in Central Tunisia -- 6 Development in Hammam Sousse, Tunisia: Change, Continuity, and Challenge -- 7 An Anthropologist's Contribution to Libya's National Human Settlement Plan -- 8 Developing Egypt's Western Desert Oases: Anthropology and Regional Planning -- 9 Agricultural Development and Food Production on a Sudanese Irrigation Scheme -- 10 Advocacy in a Bedouin Resettlement Project in the Negev -- 11 Rural Development and Migration in Northeast Syria -- 12 Doing Development Anthropology: Personal Experience in the Yemen Arab Republic -- 13 Land Use and Agricultural Development in the Yemen Arab Republic -- 14 The World Bank and the Çorum-Çankiri Rural Development Project in Turkey -- 15 Tradition and Change Among the Pastoral Harasiis in Oman -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
Summary This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. It demonstrates that anthropology and social sciences have a good deal to contribute to the understanding of domestic economies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rural development -- Africa, North
Rural development -- Middle East
Applied anthropology -- Africa, North
Applied anthropology -- Middle East
Applied anthropology
Economic history
Rural development
SUBJECT Africa, North -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001636
Middle East -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86008065
Subject Middle East
North Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Salem-Murdock, Muneera
Horowitz, Michael M., 1933-2018.
Sella, Monica
ISBN 9780429042737
0429042736
9780429693601
0429693605