A forum to foster dialogue across disciplines on issues related to culture and development.and their implications for public action. Based on the book:

Culture and Public Action, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Stanford University Press, 2004. The South Asia Edition has been published by Permanent Black.

 

Contributors (In Order of Chapters in the Book):

Amartya Sen, Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, Marco Verweij, Timur Kuran, Arjo Klamer, Lourdes Arizpe, Sabina Alkire, Anita Abraham, Jean-Phiippe Platteau, Monica Das Gupta, Carol Jenkins, Fernando Calderon, Alicia Szmuckler, Simon Harragin, Shelton Davis,Vijayendra Rao, Michael Walton

 
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Web Resources

General Resources

UNESCO http://www.unesco.org

The Development Gateway's Culture and Development Page
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130613

The Power of Culture, A website from the Netherlands that offers a variety of resources primarily on the relationship between the expressive aspects of culture and development.

 

Other Interdisciplinary Conversations

Conservations between Economists and Anthropologists-Part 2 http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/schedule.html

 

Culture, Anthropology, and Development

Order and Disjuncture, A Conference on Development Anthropogy - School of Oriental and African Studies - London, September 2003 http://www.soas.ac.uk/departments/departmentinfo.cfm?navid=458

Applied Anthropology/Development Anthropology SFAA: The Society for Applied Anthropology
http://www.sfaa.net/

NAPA: The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology:
http://www.practicinganthropology.org/

Institute for Development Anthropology
http://www.developmentanthropology.org/

Resources for understanding current debates about the legal status of indegenous art, music, folklore, biological knowledge and sacred places associated with the important book on cultural property,Who Own's Native Culture?, by the anthropologist Michael F. Brown, Harvard Univ Press, 2003 http://www.williams.edu/go/native/

Social Development and Social Policy Seminar Series - The World Bank Group

 

Inter-relationships between Economic, and Socio-Cultural Behaviors

Foundations of Human Sociality Project - Experimental Economics in a Cross-Cultural Setting http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/henrich/gameproject.htm

Economic Anthropology Society for Economic Anthropology
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/anth/sea/

 

 
 

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