The volume is framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike. Subsequent readings range from classics by Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the International Monetary Fund, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of "post-developmentalism." Explicitly designed for teaching, The Anthropology of Development and Globalization fills a crucial gap; no available text mingles historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization, and none captures such a wide variety of theoretical approaches and topics as does this collection.

Introduction : the anthropology of development and globalization
1 Of the accumulation of capital, or of productive and unproductive labor
2 Manifesto of the Communist Party
3 The evolution of the capitalistic spirit
4 The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities : labor, land, and money
5 The rise and fall of development theory
6 The history and politics of development knowledge
7 Anthropology and its evil twin : "development" in the constitution of a discipline
8 Globalization, dis-integration, re-organization : the transformations of violence
9 The globalization movement : some points of clarification
10 Globalization after September 11
11 Millennial capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism
12 Agricultural involution revisited
13 Nontraditional commodities and structural adjustment in Africa
14 Market mentalities, iron satellite dishes, and contested cultural developmentalism
15 A theory of virtualism : consumption as negation
16 Seeing culture as a barrier
17 "Men-streaming" gender? : questions for gender and development policy in the twenty-first century
18 Deterritorialization and workplace culture
19 The network inside out
20 Whose woods are these? : counter-mapping forest territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia
21 Misreading Africa's forest history
22 Colonial encounters in postcolonial contexts : patenting indigenous DNA and the human genome diversity project
23 Advocacy research and the World Bank : propositions for discussion
24 Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
25 The social organization of the IMF's mission work
26 Imagining a post-development era
27 Beyond development?
28 Village intellectuals and the challenge of poverty
29 Kerala : radical reform as development in an Indian state
30 What was socialism, and why did it fall?
31 "Disappearing the poor?" : a critique of the new wisdoms of social democracy in an age of globalization