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Anthropology in Development

A research group of the Department of Anthropology.

The Anthropology in Development Group comprises a number of staff committed to using their disciplinary expertise and skills to advance the life chances of the very poor by contributing to work in international development. The experience of the Group's members qualifies them particularly to assist in work on the environment, broadly defined. We have highly qualified staff willing to contribute to research and development on livelihood and health in socio-cultural and biological context, taken to cover the sustainable management of natural resources (agriculture, fisheries, forestry etc.), and the improvement of health and well-being (disease, nutrition, sanitation). The Department has a history of promoting anthropology in development, with such distinguished scholars as Norman Long, Lucy Mair and Philip Mayer having served on the staff.

Research Areas

Agriculture and soil science
Amazonia
Bangladesh
Benin
Chad
Children
Computational methods in applied social sciences
Displaced persons and refugees
E-Social Science
Europe
Ghana
Governance
India
Indigenous knowledge
International aid and development
Malawi
Markets
Melanesia
Nepal
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Participatory methods
South Africa
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Transportation and roads

Research Projects

Staff

Academic Staff

Research Staff

Research Student

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Publications by staff in this group

Books: authored

Aufschnaiter, C.C. (2009). Adivasi Land Rights Struggles in South India: Indigenous Resistance Strategies and the (Inter)national Law Context. Saarbrücken: VDM Publishing House Dr. Müller.
Fatima Alikhan, Peter Kyei, Emma Mawdsley, Gina Porter, Saraswati Raju, Janet Townsend & Rameswari Varma (2007). NGOs and the State in the Twenty-First Century: Ghana and India. Oxford: INTRAC.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.
Sillitoe, Paul (2003). Managing animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the Highlands. London: Routledge.
Sillitoe, Paul. , Stewart, Pamela J. & Strathern, Andrew. (2002). Horticulture in Papua New Guinea: Case Studies from the Southern and Western Highlands. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh.
E. Mawdsley, J. Townsend, G. Porter & P. Oakley (2002). Knowledge, power and development agendas: NGOs North and South. Oxford: INTRAC.
Sillitoe P (1996). A place against time: land and environment in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic (Gordon & Breach).

Books: edited

Sillitoe, Paul , Bicker, Alan & Pottier, Johan (2002). Participating in development: approaches to indigenous knowledge. ASA Monographs39. London: Routledge.
P. Fernando & G. Porter (2002). Balancing the load: women, gender and transport. London: Zed Books.

Edited works: contributions

Porter, Gina & Lyon, Fergus (2006). Social capital as culture? Promoting cooperative action in Ghana. In Culture and development in a globalizing world. Radcliffe, Sarah A. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 150-170.
F. Lyon & G. Porter (2005). The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: social capital and targeted development in West Africa. In West African worlds: local and regional paths through development, modernity and globalisation. R. Cline-Cole & E. Robson London: Pearson Education.
J. Townsend, E. Mawdsley & G. Porter: (2003). Development hegemonies and local outcomes: women and NGOs in low-income countries. In Globalization: theory and practice. E. Koffman & G. Youngs London: Continuum.
Kate Hampshire (2003). The Fulani. In Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. New York: Kluwer. 2: 656-664.
J. Townsend, E. Mawdsley & G. Porter (2002). Challenges for NGOs. In The Arnold Companion to Development Studies. V. Desai & R. Potter London: Arnold.

Journal papers: academic

Porter, Gina , Hampshire, Kate, Kyei, Peter, Adjaloo, Michael Rapoo, George & Kilpatrick, Kate (2008). Linkages between livelihood opportunities and refugee-host relations: learning from the experiences of Liberian camp-based refugees in Ghana. Journal of Refugee Studies 21(2): 230-252.
Hampshire, Kate, Porter, Gina , Kilpatrick, Kate, Kyei, Peter, Adjaloo, Michael & Oppong, George (2008). Liminal spaces: changing inter-generational relations among long-term Liberian refugees in Ghana. Human Organization 67(1): 25-36.
Porter, Gina & Abane, Albert (2008). Increasing children’s participation in African transport planning: reflections on methodological issues in a child-centred research project. Children’s Geographies 6(2): 151-167.
Panter-Brick,C, Eggerman, M, Mojadidi, A & McDade, T (2008). Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul. American Journal of Human Biology 20(6): 627-641.
Gilberthorpe, E. (2007). Fasu Solidarity: a case study of kin networks, land tenure and extraction in Kutubu, Papua New Guinea. American Anthropologist 109(1): 101-112.
Heckler, SL. (2007). Herbalism, Home Gardens, and Hybridization: Wõthïhã Medicine and Cultural Change. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 21(1): 41-63.
Jamieson, Mark. (2007). Compasión, enojo y corazones rotos: ontología y el rol del lenguaje en el lamento miskito = Compassion, anger and broken hearts: ontology and the role of language in the Miskitu lament. Wani 49: 6-18.
Jamieson, Mark. (2007). ¿Miskito o criollo? Identidad étnica y economía moral en una comunidad miskita en Nicaragua. Wani 48: 6-24.
Bell, S., Hampshire K. & Topalidou S. (2007). The Political Culture of Poaching: A case study from Northern Greece. Biodiversity and Conservation 16(2): 399-418.
Porter, Gina , Blaufuss, Kathrin & Owusu Acheampong, Frank (2007). Youth, mobility and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: perspectives from Ghana and Nigeria. Africa Insight 37(3): 420-431.
Porter, Gina (2007). Transport planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Progress in Development Studies 7(3): 251-257.
Porter, Gina, Lyon, Fergus & Potts, Deborah (2007). Market institutions and urban food supply in West and Southern Africa: a review. Progress in Development Studies 7(2): 115-134.
Marzano, M., Carss, D. & Bell, S. (2006). Working to Make Interdisciplinarity Work: Investing in Communication and Interpersonal Relationships. Journal of Agricultural Economics 57(2): 185-197.
Sillitoe, Paul (2006). What labour engenders: women and men, time and work in the New Guinea highlands. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 7(2): 119-151.
Lyon, Stephen M. & Magliveras, Simeon S. (2006). Kinship, Computing and Anthropology. Social Science Computer Review 24(1): 30-42.
Porter, G. & Lyon, F. (2006). Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24(2): 249-262.
Binns,Tony, Porter,Gina, Nel,Etienne & Kyei,Peter (2006). Decentralizing poverty? reflections on the experience of decentralisation and the capacity to achieve local development in Ghana and South Africa. Africa Insight 35(4): 21-31.
Hampshire, KR (2006). Flexibility in Domestic Organisation and Seasonal Migration among the Fulani of Northern Burkina Faso. Africa 76(3): 402-426.
Jamieson, Mark. (2006). In search of the last 'wild' Apaches of the Sierra Madre. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12(2): 457-459.
Lyon, Stephen M. & Fischer, M.D. (2006). Anthropology and displacement: Culture, communication and computers applied to a real world problem. Anthropology in Action 13(3): 40-53.
Gilberthorpe, E. (2006). “It’s Raining Money” Anthropology, Film and Resource Extraction. Anthropology in Action 13(3): 13-21.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). Culture and information: An anthropological examination of communication in cultural domains in Pakistan. Cybernetics and Systems 36(8): 919-932.
Hampshire, K, Hills, E. & Iqbal, N. (2005). Power relations in participatory research and community development: a case study from northern England. Human Organization 64(4): 340-349.
Campbell, B. (2005). Changing Protection Policies and Ethnographies of Environmental Engagement. Conservation and Society 3(2): 280-322.
Fischer, Michael D., Read, Dwight & Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). Introduction (to Special Issue on Cultural Systems, edited by M.D. Fischer, D. Read and S.M. Lyon). Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36(8): 719-734.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). Putting social engineering on the back burner teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Anthropology in action journal for applied anthropology in policy and practice 11(1): 35-44.
Hampshire, K.R., Bell, S., Wallace, G.E. & Stepukonis, F. (2004). 'Real' poachers and predators: shades of meaning in local understandings of threats to fisheries. Society and Natural Resources 17(4): 305-318.
Heckler, SL. (2004). Tedium and Creativity: the valorization of manioc cultivation and Piaroa women. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(2): 241-259.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). Modeling Context in Punjabi Conflict Resolution: Social Organizations as Context Agents. Cybernetics and Systems 35(2-3): 193-210.
J.G. Townsend, G. Porter & E.Mawdsley (2004). Creating spaces of resistance: development NGOs and their clients in Ghana, India and Mexico. Antipode 36(5): 871-889.
Russell, A.J. & Wallace, G. (2004). Irresponsible Ecotourism. Anthropology Today 20(3): 1-2.
Heckler, SL (2004). Cultivating Sociality: Aesthetic Factors in the Composition and Function of Piaroa Homegardens. Journal of Ethnobiology 24(2): 203-232.
Porter, G. (2003). NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalising world: perspectives from Ghana. Progress in Development Studies 3,2: 131-145 3(2): 131-145.
Porter, G., Harris, F., Lyon, F., Dung, J. & Adepetu, A.A. (2003). Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991-2001. Geographical Journal 169(4): 370-381.
Jamieson, Mark. (2003). Miskitu or Creole? Ethnic identity and the moral economy in a Nicaraguan Miskitu village. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 9(2): 201-222.
Hampshire, K.R. (2003). What is 'Safe Motherhood'? Insiders' and Outsiders' Percpetions of Maternal Health among Chadian Pastoralists. Genus LIX(Nos 3-4): 159-180.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2002). Local arbitration and conflict deferment in Punjab, Pakistan. Anthropologie 40(1): 59-71.
Porter, G. (2002). Living in a walking world: rural mobility and social equity issues in sub-Saharan Africa. World Development 30(2): 285-300.
Montag, D., C. Panter-Brick & A. Russell (2002). Anthropology and the Health of Populations - global trends and local contexts. British Journal of General Practice 52(481): 691.
Hampshire, Kate. (2002). Networks of nomads: negotiating access to health resources among pastoralist women in Chad. Social Science & Medicine 54(7): 1025-1037.
Hampshire, KR (2002). Fulani on the move: seasonal economic migration in the Sahel as a social process. Journal of Development Studies 38(5): 15-36.
, G. Porter (2002). Improving mobility and access for the off-road rural poor through Intermediate Means of Transport. World Transport Policy and Practice 8(4): 6-19.
J.G, Townsend G. Porter & E. Mawdsley (2002). The role of the transnational community of non-government organisations: governance or poverty reduction? Journal of International Development 14(6): 829-839.
Jamieson, Mark. (2002). La reproducción de desigualdades internas y la economía del camarón en una comunidad miskita. Wani 31: 30-37.
Jamieson, Mark. (2002). Ownership of sea shrimp production and perceptions of economic opportunity in a Nicaraguan Miskitu village. Ethnology 41(3): 281-298.
Porter, G., Rufino-Dabat, C. & Ramos da Souza, H. (2001). Local labour markets and the reconfiguration of the sugar industry in north-east Brazil. Antipode 33(5): 826-854.
Hampshire, KR & Smith, MT (2001). Consanguineous Marriage among the Fulani of Burkina Faso. Human Biology 73(4): 597-603.
Jamieson, Mark. (2001). Masks and madness: ritual expression of the transition to adulthood among Miskitu adolescents. Social Anthropology 9(3): 257-272.
Jamieson, Mark. (2001). Miskitu, Sumu y Tungla: variacion linguistica e identidad etnica. Wani 27: 6-12.
Hampshire K & SC Randall (2000). Pastoralists, Agropastoralists and Migrants: Interactions Between Fertility and Mobility in Northern Burkina Faso. Population Studies 54: 247-262.
Jamieson, Mark. (2000). "It's shame that makes men and women enemies": the politics of intimacy among the Miskitu of Kakabila. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6: 311-324.
Hampshire K & SC Randall (1999). Seasonal Labour Migration Strategies in the Sahel: Coping with Poverty or Optimising Security? International Journal of Population Geography 5: 367-385.
Sillitoe P (1999). Beating the boundaries: land tenure and identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Journal of Anthropological Research 55(3): 331-360.
Jamieson, Mark. (1999). El ingles y la variedad de miskito en la cuenca de Pearl Lagoon. Wani 24: 22-32.
Jamieson, Mark. (1999). The place of counterfeits in 'regimes of value' an anthropological approach. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5: 1-11.
Sillitoe P (1998). The development of indigenous knowledge: a new applied anthropology. Current Anthropology 39(2): 223-252.
Jamieson, Mark. (1998). Linguistic innovation and relationship terminology in Nicaragua's Pearl Lagoon. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4: 713-730.
Panter-Brick, C & Eggerman, M (1997). Household Responses to Food Shortages in Western Nepal. Human Organization 56(2): 190-198.

Other media: research

Lyon, Stephen M. (1999). Social Organisation, Economy and Development. Experience Rich Anthropology

Articles: magazine

Porter, Gina & Mawdsley, Emma (2008). Mobility and development. Geography Review 21(4): 16-18.

Books: sections

Campbell, Ben (2005). On 'Loving Your Water buffalo More Than Your Own Mother': Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal. In Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacy. Knight, John Oxford: Berg. 79-100.
Hampshire, K.R. & S.C. Randall (2004). People are a resource: Demography and livelihoods in Sahelian Fulbe of Burkina Faso. In K. Homewood (ed) Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa. James Currey and Wisconsin UP. In Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa. K. Homewood James Currey and Wisconsin UP. 123-136.
Campbell, B. (2004). Indigenous views on the Terms of Participation in the Development of Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal. In Investigating Local Knowledge: new directions, new approaches. Bicker, A, Sillitoe, P & Pottier, J. Aldershot: Ashgate. 149-167.
Hampshire, K (2000). Acces au Soins de Sante aux Femmes Nomades du Tchad. In Reflections pour une Meilleure Prise en Charge de la Sante en Milieu Nomade au Tchad. K Wyss & J Zinsstag Abidjan: Sempira. 8: 92-107.
Sillitoe P (2000). Indigenous knowledge development in Bangladesh: Present and future. In London: Intermediate Technology Publications & Dhaka: University Press. 3-20, 145-60, 161-177, 179-195.
Jamieson, Mark. (2000). Compassion, anger and broken hearts: ontology and the role of language in the Miskitu lament. In The anthropology of love and anger the aesthetics of conviviality in native Amazonia. Overing, J. & Passes, A. London: Routledge. 82-96.
Hampshire, K.R. & S.C. Randall (2000). Fulani Fertility Differentials in Northern Burkina Faso'. In Propects of Patoralism in West Africa. I. Hoffman Geissen: Tropeninstitut, Reihe I (Symposium) Band 25. 11-126.
Hampshire K & SC Randall (1998). Pauvrete et Migration Saisonniere chez les Peulhs du Sahel Burkinabe. In Crises, Pauvrete et Changements Demographiques dans les Pays du Sud. F Gendrau Paris: Editions Estem.
Mytton, G & Eggerman, M (1993). International radio as a source of news. In Global Audiences: Research for Worldwide Broadcasting. Mytton, G London: John Libbey. 179-200.

Edited works: conference proceedings

Lyon, Stephen M., Sillitoe, Paul. & Wilson, Robin. (2005). Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction. First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, NCeSS.
Panter-Brick, C, Wardak, AW, Eggerman, M & Crowther, R (2005). Bio-psychosocial markers of mental health: research with refugee, street, and non-displaced Afghan youth in the wake of war. Human Biology Association 30th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, John Wiley.
Eggerman, M (2004). Questions for Afghanistan? The Impact of Cultural, Social, and Educational Factors on Research. Conference of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services, London, CIBAR.
Eggerman, M (2003). Afghanistan: A View From the Ground. Conference of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services, Moscow, CIBAR.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2002). Modelling competing contextual rules conflict resolution in Punjab, Pakistan. 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies.

Essays in edited volumes

Heckler, SL. (2006). On Knowing and Not Knowing: the Many Valuations of Piaroa Local Knowledge. In Local Science vs. Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development. Sillitoe, P. Oxford.: Berghahn. 91 - 108.
Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). In the Shadow of September 11th: Multiculturalism and Identity Politics. In Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure. Abbas, Tahir London: Zed.
Hampshire, KR (2001). The impact of male migration on fertility decisions and outcomes among the Fulani of Burkina Faso. In Managing Reproductive Life. Tremayne, S. Oxford: Berghahn. 107-126.

Edited works: journals

Fischer, M.D., Read, D. & Lyon, S.M. (2005). Special Issue on Cultural Systems. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, 36 (8).

Journal papers: online

Jamieson, Mark. (2007). Language and the process of socialisation amongst bilingual children in a Nicaraguan village. Durham Anthropology Journal 14(1).
Lyon, Fergus & Porter, Gina (2007). Market institutions, trust and norms: exploring moral economies in Nigerian food systems. Cambridge Journal of Economics 2007: 1-18.

Book chapters: online

Eggerman, M (2002). Audience Research in Afghanistan. In Afghan Media Reconstruction in Focus. London: BBC World Service Trust. 51-58.