Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East

The fourth in the Institute for Development Anthropology's monograph series, this book provides social science analysis of recent rural development in South-West Asia and North Africa, covering such topics as water-user associations, integrated rural development, large-scale irrigation schemes, agricultural credit, oasis development, pastoral sedentarization and urbanization, resettlement, wage labour migration, household dynamics, co-operatives, agricultural research and the rise of national identities.