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- Development_anthropology abstract "In 1971 Glynn Cochrane proposed Development Anthropology as a new field for practitioners interested in a career outside academia (Cochrane 1971; Cochrane, 1976). Given the growing complexity of development assistance Cochrane suggested that graduates needed to prepare themselves to work in interdisciplinary settings (Cochrane 1980). In 1973 Cochrane was invited by the World Bank to make recommendations for the use of anthropology and his report (Cochrane 1974) which stressed the need for the systematic treatment of social issues laid a foundation for future use of the discipline in the World Bank Group (Goodlund 1999). Around ninety anthropologists are now employed by the World Bank group in various roles.In 1974 Bob Berg of USAID and Cochrane worked together and as a result the Agency introduced Social Soundness Analysis as a project preparation requirement. This innovation led to the employment of more than seventy anthropologists (Hoben 1982; Cochrane 1979). Social Soundness Analysis has now been in USAID use for over forty years. USAID ran an in-house Development Studies Course in the 1970s through which several hundred field personnel eventually passed. In addition to anthropology, the course covered development economics, regional and national planning, and institution building. In the late 1970s Michael Horowitz and David Brokensha established an Institute for Development Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghampton. This institute has played an influential role in the continuing expansion of this branch of the discipline. By the 1980s and 1990s Development Anthropology began to be more widely used in the private sector (Cochrane 2008). Corporate Social Responsibility and issues ranging from resettlement and Human Rights to micro-enterprise are now routinely addressed by systematic social assessment as an integral part of investment appraisal.Development anthropology refers to the application of anthropological perspectives to the multidisciplinary branch of development studies. It takes international development and international aid as primary objects. In this branch of anthropology, the term development refers to the social action made by different agents (institutions, business, enterprise, states, independent volunteers) who are trying to modify the economic, technical, political or/and social life of a given place in the world, especially in impoverished, formerly colonized regions.Development anthropologists share a commitment to simultaneously critique and contribute to projects and institutions that create and administer Western projects that seek to improve the economic well-being of the most marginalized, and to eliminate poverty. While some theorists distinguish between the 'anthropology of development' (in which development is the object of study) and development anthropology (as an applied practice), this distinction is increasingly thought of as obsolete (see Escobar, 1997, in Edelman and Haugerud, 2005:40). With researches on the field, the anthropologist can describe, analyze and understand the different actions of development that took and take place in a given place. The various impacts on the local population, environment, social and economic life are to be examined.".
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- Development_anthropology comment "In 1971 Glynn Cochrane proposed Development Anthropology as a new field for practitioners interested in a career outside academia (Cochrane 1971; Cochrane, 1976). Given the growing complexity of development assistance Cochrane suggested that graduates needed to prepare themselves to work in interdisciplinary settings (Cochrane 1980).".
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