[TimorLesteStudies] ANU Anthropology Seminar: Looking at the Anthropology of Development through a case study of a horticultural project in an East Timor village

[Bu Wilson]

Title: Looking at the Anthropology of Development through a case study 
of a horticultural project in an East Timor village.

Presenter: Dr Chris Shepherd
Visiting Fellow
Department of Anthropology|
College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU

Date: Wednesday 18 May 
Time: 9:30-11:00am
Location: Seminar Room A, Coombs Bldg

Abstract
In this paper I give a brief overview of the main 
perspectives in the anthropology of development, and focus on one of 
these perspectives (entangled social logics) in relation to a particular 
horticultural development project in the highlands of East Timor. In 
particular, I look at; what gender meant to the project organizers and 
to the local men and women; how equity was and wasn't negotiated within 
the community and between the community and the project managers; how 
the project was mapped onto existing agro-social patterns and how, 
inevitably, project organizers struggled to keep existing agro-social 
patterns from interfering with the project, while 
participants/beneficiariesseemed determined to mix everything up; and, 
finally, the different ideas project organizers and participants held 
about "ownership" of the project and what the relationship between the 
community and the development agency should be.

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Dr Bu V.E. Wilson
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