This book deals with various aspects and issues of development–planned, implemented, monitored and evaluated for the betterment of people. Giving a conceptual overview of developmental anthropology, it describes in detail the theories, models and approaches of development. It also extends discussion on cultural indicators of development, socio-cultural factors supporting it, various impediments, governmental, non-governmental and International agencies of development, role of human rights and Panchayati Raj in development and the issue of developmental displacement and rehabilitation. The role of anthropology and anthropologists in development has been described as well.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gaya Pandey
Gaya Pandey (b. 1954) is a senior faculty in anthropology at Ranchi University, Ranchi (Jharkand) ever since his joining as faculty member in this institution (1985), he has been actively engaged in fieldwork, teaching and research. He has to his credit dozens of articles published in journals of national (Indian) Anthropology), Bhartiya Janajatiya Sanskriti ( Indian Culture), Tribal and Manav Shastriya Sidhanta: Shastriya and Adhunik ( Anthropological Theory: Classical and Modern).His books published under coauthorship include Sun Worship in India (1992), History of Anthropological Thought (1993), Manavshastriya Vicharak Ewam Vichardharayen (2000), Forest and Tribals (1997), Artisan Tribes of Bihar and Bengal (2001), Janajatiya Vikas (2001), Vikasatmak Manav Vigyan (2001), Tribal Development in India (2002), and Samajik Sanskritik Manav Shastra (2005).
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