Anthropology, Development and Modernities: Exploring discourse, c

Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies. The contributors argue that explanations of change framed in terms of the dominant discourses and institutions of modernity are inadequate, and that we should give closer attention to discourses, images, beliefs and practices that run counter to these, yet play a part in shaping them and giving them meaning.