This volume explores the changing ecology, political significance, and cultural meaning of water in South India using long-term anthropological field study, oral histories, and detailed archival work. Focusing on the ancient and complex ‘tank’ irrigation systems of a coastal plains region, the book develops an account of the interplay between social and political organization and the ecology of water flows. It highlights the importance of water in the idioms ...
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
Based on a detailed account of an actual development project, this book addresses an important question: Is development practice actually driven by policy? Development agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; with exerting influence over policy; linking research to policy, and with implementing policy around the world. In this book, David Mosse argues that rather than being driven by policy, development practice is actually shaped by the exigencies ...
Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity
