||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Bewitching|By Brian Siegel|This is a delightful book. Kenyans, like Zambians and Tanzanians, are hung up on the ideology of development, and eagerly want to get ahead. Structural adjustment policies have gutted public services, some of which are now being offered by NGOs. These external agencies, staffed by strangers, give some individuals access to inexplicable wealth and||
“Critiques of development abound (most notably offered by proponents of development), as do assertions of the links between magic and modernity. In his exceptional ethnography, James Smith goes beyond the standard anthropological practice of &lsquo
These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In Bewitching Development, James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic accoun... [PDF.ip37] Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) Rating: 3.63 (697 Votes)
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