Anthropology And Development In North Africa And The Middle East

by Muneera Salem-Murdock (Editor)

Overview

This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. It demonstrates that anthropology and social sciences have a good deal to contribute to the understanding of domestic economies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367012878
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Pages:	373
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Muneera Salem-Murdock is senior research associate and executive officer at the Institute for Development Anthropology and an adjunct assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton. She has carried out research in Sudan, Tunisia, Jordan, South Yemen, and Senegal on irrigation, household production systems, and differentiation, and has served as consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Agency for International Development. Dr. Salem-Murdock is the author of Arabs and Nubians in New Haifa: A Study of Settlement and Irrigation (University of Utah Press, 1989). Michael M Horowitz, professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and director of the Institute for Development Anthropology, has carried out research among farming and pastoral peoples in Senegal, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, the Sudan, Zaire, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Jamaica, and Martinique. In 1974-1975 he served as regional anthropologist and director of applied social science research for AID's Regional Economic Development Services Office for West Africa, and from 1979 to 1984 he was senior social science advisor to AID's Office of Evaluation. He coedited Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa and Lands at Risk in the Third World. He received the Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Monica Sella received her master's degree in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin and has carried out field research in the Senegal Valley for the Land Tenure Center and for the Institute for Development Anthropology.

Table of Contents

0. Introduction 1. Brokering Social Science in Development: Experiences in Morocco 2. Slash-and-Bum Cultivation, Charcoal Making, and Emigration from the Highlands of Northwest Morocco 3. Farm Size and Agricultural Credit in Morocco: Correcting Distorted Information in the Development Process 4. Water-User Associations in Rural Central Tunisia 5. Household Production Organization and Differential Access to Resources in Central Tunisia 6. Development in Hammam Sousse, Tunisia: Change, Continuity, and Challenge 7. An Anthropologist's Contribution to Libya's National Human Settlement Plan 8. Developing Egypt's Western Desert Oases: Anthropology and Regional Planning 9. Agricultural Development and Food Production on a Sudanese Irrigation Scheme 10. Advocacy in a Bedouin Resettlement Project in the Negev, Israel 11. Rural Development and Migration in Northeast Syria 12. Doing Development Anthropology: Personal Experience in the Yemen Arab Republic 13. Land Use and Agricultural Development in the Yemen Arab Republic 14. The World Bank and the Corum-Cankiri Rural Development Project in Turkey 15. Tradition and Change Among the Pastoral Harasiis in Oman