Student Resources

Links Chapter 14

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/
Home site of one of the leading multilateral development institutions in the world, featuring statistics and reports and other valuable information

International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
Website of a major international organization “The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 185 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.”

Directory of Development Organizations
http://www.devdir.org/
“The directory of development organizations, listing 53,750 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, research institutions, governments and the private sector.”

Neoliberalism and Globalization
http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/anthropology.php?cat=144
A page of antropologi.info dedicated to social and cultural anthropology in the news, featuring items about contemporary economic development and globalization as well as links to other anthropological topics

“Anthropology and Development: Evil Twin or Moral Narrative?”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3800/is_200201/ai_n9025925/
An article originally published in Human Organization (2002) by David Gow on the relationship between anthropology and international development

International Development Research Center Digital Library
https://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/
“The IDRC Digital Library provides the international research community with access to a current and comprehensive collection of research results and documents generated by IDRC-funded projects, IDRC funding recipients, and IDRC staff about a wide range of subjects related to international development.”

Marketing, Microchips, and McDonalds: Debating Globalization
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-336Spring2004/CourseHome/
A course in MIT’s Open Courseware, with downloadable course materials

Globalization
http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/20
Central site for articles on the topic of globalization published in Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (access to articles requires login or participation of a library or institution)

Anthropology and Globalization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFe9IpTCYk&feature=related
First in a series of video-recorded lectures by Keith Hart on globalization from an anthropological perspective