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The Anthropology of
International Development
David Mosse
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WC1H 0XG,
United Kingdom; email: dm21@soas.ac.uk
Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2013. 42:22746
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aid, donors, expert knowledge, neoliberalism, poverty, ethnography
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This review examines how international development has been studied by

anthropologists, both as a particular form of institutional practice and as the
terms of global economic and cultural integration. This review also explains
a shift from an anthropological critique of the discursive power of development toward the ethnographic treatment of development as a category of
practice. It reviews research into organizational and knowledge practices, and
the life-worlds of Aidland, before turning to anthropological approaches
to neoliberal development and the new aid architecture and, nally, to three
signicant current issues: the importance of business in development and
corporate social responsibility; the donor focus on poverty as the result of
the failure of government, conict, and insecurity; and the growing importance of new donors such as China and India. This review concludes with
comments about how engagement with international development has encouraged reection on the practice of anthropology itself.
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INTRODUCTION

The anthropology of development raises core anthropological questions about human similarity
and difference, Western modernity, and the terms of economic and cultural integration. International development itself has a commitment both to the principle of difference and to similarity
(Corbridge 2007, p. 179). Its narrative of progress implies that difference is a decit to be overcome, whereas its narrative of emancipation implies that difference is sovereign self-determination
and thus present equality (Rottenburg 2009). The processes that weave around these contradictions in development interventions are complex, as are the debates within anthropology around
development as a (global) social imaginary and its political-economic effects. In a short review,
it is impossible to do justice to both these issues. My focus is on the former: the study, broadly
speaking, of development interventionsnot particular sectors (education, agriculture, etc.) but
institutional practices, knowledge production, and social relations.
As studied by anthropologists, international development entails social processes that are inevitably transnational, intercultural, and multiscalar and involve the interaction and intermediation
of extensive actor networks, with different logics and life-worlds. For Olivier de Sardan (2005),
this characterization makes development not so much a separate object of study as a methodology,
a privileged empirical pathway through a complex set of institutions, ows and actors (p. 2).
The participation of anthropologists themselves in this eldas policy workers, consultants, or
advocatesrst produced a distinction between pure and applied anthropology but now generates
new ethnographic knowledge and epistemological debate through variants of reective observant
participation (Mosse 2006, Gow 2008, Rottenburg 2009). Building on recent more comprehensive reviews of the eld (especially Edelman & Haugerud 2005; also see Crewe & Axelby 2013),
this review examines current and interlinked trajectories of anthropology and development as its
object of study.
First, I provide some background on the anthropological critique of the discursive power
of development before exploring the shift toward ethnographic treatment of development as a
category of practice. Second, I focus on research into organizational and knowledge practices
and the life-worlds of Aidland before turning to the neoliberal context of a new aid architecture.
Finally, I discuss some current shifts: business at the center, governing at the periphery, and the
arrival of new aid donors.
BACKGROUND: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE

OF DEVELOPMENT
Anthropology has a history inextricably entwined with imperial projects of power, improvement,
and pulling people into the world system (Kuper 2005, MacFarlane 2012), but also with projects
of protection, solidarity, and liberation, which too often are occluded in its self-history of moral
improvement (Fairhead 2012). This mix produced distinctive American and European (British,
French, and German) traditions of development anthropology (Bierschenk 2008). Despite a long
engagement with varied open-ended meanings of development, in the 1980s anthropologists
turned to the invented idea of big-D development analyzed as a Foucauldian discourse by
which the industrialized West has continued to exercise control over processes of global change
in a postcolonial world (Yarrow & Venkatesan 2012, p. 3; Escobar 1995).
At this key juncture, [l]iberating anthropology from its own colonial past was inextricably
linked to the liberation of anthropology from the space mapped by the development encounter
(Yarrow & Venkatesan 2012, p. 4; Ferguson 1997), which of course placed various anthropological
engagements in a new critical light (e.g., Escobar 1991). However, the primary concern of critical
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anthropology was not development (that is, the institutions and programs that identify themselves
as such) but rather all that Development concealsespecially strategies of power. Development
agencies claims to improve the conditions of other people disguised governmental practices of
control and incorporation of dangerous borderlands into the states grids or global capitalism
(Ferguson 1994, Dufeld 2002); and the material reordering of peoples resources (land, forest,
rivers) for extraction for metropolitan prot and the imposed knowledge hierarchies led both
to dispossession and to program failure (Greenough & Tsing 2003, Scott 1998). Such politicaleconomic effects occurred behind the antipolitics front of schemes for production or poverty
reduction (Ferguson 1994).
This critical anthropology of development is profoundly inuenced by Michel Foucaults work,
although the emphasis has gradually shifted from his earlier analysis of knowledge/power or discourse to his later work on governmentality and ethics, and from the effort to deconstruct development as a historical system of thought to the interactions of various actors and systems of
knowledge (Rossi 2004a, p. 560). Li (2007b) considers a key governmental effect of development to
be what she refers to as rendering technical, that is, conceiving and rearranging social relations
and inherently political processes in alignment with expert designs. The idea of governmentality
has been applied (albeit with caveats) to the variety of shifting development discourses including
that of human rights, which Englund (2006) argues becomes disempowering in Malawi by rendering technical structural problems, blocking collective action for entitlements and justice from
the state, and making the poor prisoners of freedom.
The explicitly bottom-up participatory approaches (partly inspired by anthropological valuation of indigenous knowledge) were also seen as structured by, rather than changing, relations of
power (Cook & Kothari 2001, but see Hickey & Mohan 2004), albeit in complex ways. These
approaches might involve experts rendering technical (recontextualizing) indigenous knowledge
or institutions while engendering modern lifestyles and aspirations, putting in place new scales of
social distinction, but leaving wider structures unaltered (Pigg 1992, Mosse 2005a, Li 2007b). In
programs that emphasized self-help empowerment or community-driven development, the idea
of governmentality in neoliberal mode (Li 2007b) offered the ethnographic advantage (Englund
2006, p. 37) of simultaneous attention to faceless norms, rules, and audits of a plurality of authorities (state and nonstate) and to the self-regulating behavior of communities or individualsthat
is, the working of intimate government at a distance (Rose & Miller 1992). In Agrawals (2005)
longue-duree study of state-engendered environmental subjectivities (or environmentality) through
community forestry (in Himalayan India), it was new institutional practice that changed peoples
dispositions. Development as an incitement to work upon oneself (Pandian 2008, p. 162) through
programs of practical and moral improvement is indeed a repeating theme, whether in forestry,
agriculture, resettlement, or other schemes, either modern or missionary (Moore 2005, Pandian
2009). This radical postdevelopment critique, however, ultimately concerned the political economy of truth and the centrality of development, not just as an organizing principle of social life
but in the discursive imaginary (Escobar 2012, pp. xiixiii).
BEYOND CRITIQUE
Moving on from development as the cloak of power, ethnographers now argue that there is
much that the language of disguise itself disguises (Yarrow & Venkatesan 2012, p. 7). At worst,
the instrumentalism of developments self-representation is replaced by a power functionalism
(Sahlins 2008, p. 12) that destroys rather than demysties its object, development, whose agents
are denied reexive intentionality or responsibility (Mosse 2005a, pp. 56). There has been a shift
to (re)engage with ethnographic meanings of development as a category of practice (rather than
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a category of analysis), that is, to understand the way in which development becomes produced
and reproduced as a common sense part of peoples understanding of the world and their place
within it and how the delineation of [development] emerges from, and produces, particular
historical circumstances, particular cultural logics, and nally, particular subjectivities (Curtis &
Spencer 2012, p. 179), which is how these authors account for a parallel recovery of politics as an
ethnographic subject.
Treating development as a category of practice involves, for one thing, reecting on critique
itself as a kind of ethnocentric stance that unnecessarily ties insight to pessimism (Yarrow &
Venkatesan 2012, p. 6; Yarrow 2011, p. 3) or takes the discursive centrality of development as
self-evidently an orchestration of power with known effects. As Cooper & Packard (1997) point
out, locating power does not show that it is determinant or that a particular discourse is not
appropriable for other purposes (p. 3). Studies of aid-funded projects [such as those by Rossi
(2004b) and Mosse (2005)] show how marginalized people manipulate project discourses, for
example refusing the responsibilizing disciplines of participation while making claims (for employment, capital investment, or social protection from outsiders) within a very different politics
of patronage and allegiance. Here, development as a category of practice becomes more about
connection than communitysomething that Gardner (2012) also demonstrates in her long-term
study of the shifting fortunes brought to people in Sylhet, Bangladesh, by development as connection/disconnection, inter alia, through transnational migration and the arrival of a multinational
gas-extraction company in the locality.
Attention has also turned from development as an antipolitical mask of power to development
as the practice of politics (Li 2007b). Lis historical anthropology of two centuries of layered
betterment schemes in Indonesia reveals the governmental will to improve as a project and
not a secure accomplishment (p. 10), many times evaded and contested. Bierschenk (2008, p. 10)
reminds us that the antipolitics international aid programs that render technical are readily
politicized by African elites to their own advantage, and Blundo (2006) points out that the focus on the state as a machinery of delivery and economic management, rather than as a political
entity whose legitimacy derives from development, has overlooked the intimate relationship between development and democracy. Studying the contentious history of sheries in south India,
Subramanian (2009) concludes that when we look at development practice, we see a highly charged
politically fractious process . . . tied up with the proliferation of new democratic institutions.
Development and democracythe intertwined key words of postcolonial state formationwere
more than simply a cynical mantra for the consolidation of state power (p. 145). The political
engagement of postdevelopment critics is itself evidence that the meaning, direction, and control of development are at the heart of contentious politics, bound up with identity, place, and
belonging.
Recent ethnography adds historicity and spatiality to anthropologies of development. Both
Moore (2005) and Subramanian (2009) analyze contemporary development politics as a layering
of earlier processes. In the rst case, struggles over land by Kaerezians in eastern Zimbabwe recall
colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial dispossessions and repossessions; in the second, the artisanal
shers ght against capitalist trawling makes sense only in terms of a history of claim making
whereby shers emerge as subjects of rights in relation to other groups and institutions. In both
instances, the relational politics is distinctly spatialembedded in landscape (Kaerezi) and spatial
identity (coastal-sher versus inland-caste).
In these ethnographies, development, like human rights or democracy, is not considered a
regime of truth diffusing from modern liberalism but rather provincialized as a particular
dynamic cultural formation that involves identity (caste or religion), occupation, and spacemaking (Subramanian 2009). This interpretation is a challenge to Escobars (2012) treatment of

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development as the overall discursive fact (pp. xiiixiv). Development is not what the West does
to the rest but is part of the postcolonial predicament (Yarrow 2011, pp. 23).
Indeed, anthropologists have often discovered that ideologies of development are not
experienced as culturally foreign (Pigg 1992). The signicance of a British aid project in Adivasi
in western India emerged from an existing cultural logic that was contiguous with historical
socioreligious movements of self-improving change (Mosse 2005a). Such moral self-making
of development is not analyzable simply as peoples submission to a governmental order
of power identifying their own nature as a problem (Pandian 2008, p. 159). It may entail
infusion of existing cultural concepts (indigenous ideas of development), normative orders, moral
imperatives, or theories of social change, such as the Yoruba qlaju (enlightenment) analyzed
by Peel (1978). Rather as anthropologists have suggested in relation to religious conversion
(Robbins 2004), development (as idea and practice) is produced through existing categories,
which it then transforms. Thus, Peel sees qlajua particular system of metaphors and ideas about
knowledge in relation to powerbecoming progressively linked to Western education and its
place in Nigerian social policy. In a parallel case, Pandian (2008) explains how ideologies of Tamil
uzhaippu (toil) shift from suffering to self-advancement. There is no intention here to sanitize the
development encounter of power. De Vries (2007) might say that the above examples illustrate
how the development industry is parasitic on the beliefs and dreams of the subjects it creates
(p. 30). His argument is, rst (giving a Lacanian/Deleuzian twist to Ferguson), that development
is a desiring machine and that the lack from its failures drives desire, articulated through
imagination; and second, that a true politics and critique have to take desire for development
seriously and engage with development failure itself, not collude in the banalization of desire as
governmentality.
Other researchers focus on the local negotiation of development. Gow (2008) participated
in structured community planning processes in Nasa Indian (postearthquake) resettlements in
Colombia to discover a reworking of national development discourse in indigenous terms as the
desire for a certain critical modernity or counterdevelopment (cf. Arce & Long 2000). Here,
institutionalizing custom (language, law, shamanic knowledge) as indigenous education development is the Nasa Indians means to simultaneously enter the dominant society and protect their
own. More generally, the place of development within indigenous activism or social movements
(such as the Indian Dalit movements) reveals developmentdemanded, resisted, reworkedas a
key site for struggles over the terms of recognition and of citizenship (cf. Ghosh 2006, Mosse 2010),
in which anthropologists may undertake deliberately partisan work with particular constituencies
(Dove 1999, Gow 2008).
In specic ways that have to be studied or engaged with, various political practices come to
be translated into development discourses (national or international), which then provide the
means by which people negotiate and frame social, cultural and political differences (Yarrow
& Venkatesan 2012, p. 9). The point, as Yarrow (2011) puts it, is that development is not a
coherent set of practices but a set of practices that produces coherence (p. 6). What elements
and relations of power are involved, who and what the signicant actors are, what purposes are
served by processes of connection/disconnection (development/counterdevelopment), and what
autonomy is achieved or lost are not known in advance.
How such processes are conceptualized varies. Moore (2005), Li (2007a), and Gould (2007), for
example, have turned to Deleuze & Guattaris (1987) indeterministic (but empirically discovered)
notion of assemblage (agencement) to capture the social and reective processes of development. Assemblage is the exible, contingent, and continuous work of pulling disparate elements together
(ideas, moralities, artefacts, technologies, diffused agency, heterogeneous interests, destabilizing
elements) and is always a process of ordering not order (Moore 2005, pp. 24, 332). [See Li
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(2007a) on community forest management as transnational assemblage, and Schwittay (2011a) on

the nancial inclusion assemblage.]
Others follow Latour (2005) to argue that the material and conceptual coherence of a development program is performed through political acts of composition by heterogeneous
actors/actantsthe causal relations of the material world as well as intentional human actions
(Mosse 2005a). Latour (2004), moreover, claims critique has run out of steam and that we
should instead trace the policies, project designs, or technologies back to the human/object relationships (the gatherings) from which they come, not to deconstruct them but optimistically to
strengthen their claim to reality.
The difculty with these network approaches, according to Escobar (2012), is threefold.
First, although these approaches carefully trace connections, they fail to adequately sort out those
that are powerful from those that are not (or are compromised) and therefore fail to allow a
political economy to the network [cf. Latours (2005) reverse position on the methodological
need to keep the social at]. Second, they suffer a political failure in offering no signicant
challenge to what exists, and they adopt a hermeneutics of cynicism about the possibility of radical
change. Third, because they choose not to perceive the uni-versality of Western development (or
modernity) and the cultural hegemony by which it becomes the translator of ideas, experiences, or
dreams (that upon which counterwork must be performed), these ethnographic approaches cannot
grasp or support genuinely different perspectives as the basis for culturally variant alternatives to
development (Escobar 2012, p. xv). However, other anthropologists point to the signicance of
engaged universals (Tsing 2004) such as rights discourses (human rights, indigenous rights,
etc.) in articulating difference, in mobilizing claims to resources or recognition, and in forging
alliances with global networks. Of course, such connections are disjunctive (frictive; Tsing 2004)
as well as productive [as situated anthropologies of rights, codes and categories, and claims in
various elds show (e.g., Crewe & Axelby 2013, pp. 10730; Ghosh 2006)]. In an interconnected
world, development agendas do not only travel; they interact with historical-cultural formations of
identity, rights, and development, which are then in turn globalized through advocacy chains (the
activist networks on Dalit rights and development I am currently studying being a case in point).
Having broadly set out the (not uncontested) basis for examining development as a category of
practice, in the remainder of this review I narrow the focus to anthropological studies of the thought
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: INSIDE THE BLACK BOX

Whether as outsiders or as insiders with biographical access, anthropologists have examined the
program practice and processes, the life-worlds, and the politics of the apparatus of international development through a growing body of so-called aidnography (Gould & Marcussen 2004,
Kontinen 2004, Mosse 2011a). Theoretical inuences have diversied from the Manchester School
interactionalist focus on expert-community interfaces (e.g., Long & Long 1992) to shifting identities and brokerage in development (the Francophone Africanist literature; e.g., Bierschenk et al.
2002) to more recent actor-network theory approaches (Lewis & Mosse 2006a).
Opening up the black box between policy intention and social effects, and asking how development works, has produced descriptions of the inner working, organizational practices, and
discursive repertoires of state and nongovernmental organization (NGO) bureaucracies (Hilhorst
2003, Watkins et al. 2012). As Quarles van Ufford (1988) observed, bureaucracy is not itself an instrument of policy because bureaucracy is an independent generator of ideas, goals and interests
(p. 77). Among examples of the intermediate connecting points (and the corruption) that constitute programs and public services are the complex bureaucratic arrangements for donor-backed
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neoliberal reform in Senegal, studied by Blundo (2006), who shows how this project itself produced (or incentivized) informal privatization, criminalization, and the rise of auxiliary revenue
controlling agents (touts and brokers). At another level, Gupta (2012) explains how writing (words,
statistics, and registers) constitutes bureaucratic action while impeding delivery. Others too reveal
the work of development as institutionally directed and socially agentive writing by examining
documents as sets of social relations or by describing the social production of numbers, which
are privileged in translocal development planning because of their capacity to strip out context
(Harper 1998, Smith 2006, Rottenburg 2009, Mosse 2011a, Gupta 2012).
Organizational theory has helped anthropologists show how bureaucratic systems (NGO or
state) tend to prioritize their own internal system goals (of maintenance and survival) over
meeting ofcial policy goals (Mintzberg 1979, via Quarles van Ufford 1988). Moreover, the institutional organizations that typify the eld of international development are those that are
compelled, [to] serve rst and foremost the legitimation narrative assigned to them by their
[political] environment (Rottenburg 2009, p. 68), which contains such a diversity of competing
interests that these ofcial narratives are characterized by vagueness and ambiguity. The result
is pervasive disjuncture in development order (Lewis & Mosse 2006b). The things that make
for good policywhich legitimizes and enrolls diverse supporters and interestsare not those
that make projects practicable; good policy is unimplementable (Mosse 2005a). Alternatively,
as Rottenburg (2009) puts it, there is a loose coupling of ofcial representations (goals, structures) and actual organizational practices, which draws ethnographic attention to the trading zones
and translation practicesnot the objects or actors but what occurs between them (p. xxvi)
that Rottenburg so skillfully explores through his ctionalized account of a donor-nanced water
sectorreform project in East Africa.
Ethnography shows that policy designs have to be transformed through translation (Latour
2005) into the diverse interests and meanings of actors that a program brings together. Loose
coupling distributes agency and permits multiplication of the criteria of, and claims for, success,
a phenomenon that Bornsteins (2005) ethnography of religious NGOs in Zimbabwe shows
allowing the state to secure legitimacy by taking credit for NGO programs. Loose coupling
facilitates international developments contradictory commitment to difference and similarity,
progress and emancipation, efciency and local ownership, by allocating incongruous principles
to separated contexts, mediated by consultants and various ceremonial facades (Rottenburg
2009, p. 70). Anthropologists thus describe the entirely reversible institutional processes through
which projects become real (i.e., produce coherence) through the work of generating and
translating interests, enrolling supporters, and stabilizing interpretations and representations so
as to match (for a while) events to prevailing policy theory, which is usually the most urgent and
practical action (Mosse 2005a).
DEVELOPMENTS EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

Such research has changed the way anthropologists view expertise and policy, especially in light
of Mitchells (2002) argument that as a sphere of rational intention, policy does not precede
and order practice but rather is produced by it, grounded in particular interests, contingencies,
and exclusions. In a similar vein, Rottenburg (2009) insists that the technical game that arises in
development cooperation (the antipolitics discourse) is not an instrument of hegemony, but rather
the only code available for carrying out transcultural negotiations under postcolonial conditions
and the norm of reciprocity (p. 142).
Other researchers focus on processes at the global centers of policy making (see the contributions to Mosse 2011a). Some are concerned with the interlinking of expert knowledge
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and the power and legitimacy of key institutions [e.g., Goldman (2005) on the World Banks
environmental knowledge and St Clair (2006) on its economic knowledge]. Others study
extrainstitutional or transnational networks of policy-shaping experts [e.g., Wedel (2000) on the
corporate/public boundarycrossing ex nets shaping 1990s US economic aid to Russia]. A
third group of researchers has studied paradigm maintenance within and between interlinked
organizations: the everyday practices of professionalization, ideological control, and groupthink;
the self-disciplining incentives of career building (e.g., Uchiyamada 2004); or risk-dispersing
reliance on templates that give development models resilience, despite contradicting evidence
[as Stiglitz (2002) shows for World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) market
liberalization models], and to which international development organizations, lacking democratic
accountability to citizen beneciaries, are especially susceptible (Wade 1996, Woods 2006).
Rich ethnography exists on the institutional shaping of policy ideas (Douglas 1986) and the
social agency of concepts and their artifacts (documents) as translators of interests. Examples
include the social making of economic facts in the IMF (Harper 1998), human rights economized
as risk management at the World Bank (Sarfaty 2012), and the instrumentalization of equity
(McNeill & St Clair 2011) or society as social capital (Bebbington et al. 2004); the latter concept
here works socially to protect a vulnerable group of noneconomists rather than as an instrument of
World Bank power through depoliticizing development (Harriss 2001). It is precisely as an effect
of privileged analytical forms and aesthetics (network, bracket, matrix) that Riles (2001) analyzes
professional knowledge in her ethnography of womens NGO networking.
Anthropologists are, of course, also interested in the effects of international developments
context-free traveling rationalities (Craig & Porter 2006), which assert the formal over the
substantive and the categorical over the relational (Eyben 2006) and that bury political debates in
results management and the framing of self-disciplining indicators for everything from economic
growth to governance and human rights (Merry 2011). One effect is the dominance of the universal
logic of institutional economics and law, as well as the marginality of anthropology itself as a
critical ethnographic discipline, even though the numbers of social scientists within agencies
such as the World Bank have soared (from 1 in 1974 to more than 450 in 2004; Mosse 2011b).
Here their role is not to clarify processes of power or loose coupling but to facilitate those of
development negotiation, especially by rendering technical the social for project investment
through conceptions such as social capital (Li 2007b). Or, when anthropology performs its earlierallocated expert role of interpreting development failure in terms of local culture, Rottenburg
(2009) notes, it provides a valuable service to the self-staging of development cooperation (p. 73).
Another effect of expert knowledge is the denial of history (Lewis 2009, Woolcock et al. 2011),
which is the practice, as Pritchett & Woolcock (2004) put it, of skipping straight to Weber.
This practice involves clothing institutional solutions that actually emerged from histories of trial
and error, politically driven experiments, conict, and struggle in the language of bureaucratic
rationality; and part of the solution is to hide this fact (Pritchett & Woolcock 2004, p. 201). An
example is the sort of neoliberal rewriting of the history of capitalism in rich countries that Chang
(2002) describes in Kicking Away the Ladder.
In addition to exploring the social origins and undisclosed baggage of international developments traveling rationalities, anthropologists show how these are unpacked into the social/institutional interests of local collaborators, generating complex and unintended effects [see
Craig & Porter (2006) on neoliberal reform in Vietnam, Pakistan, and Uganda; Anders (2010) on
good governance reform in Malawi; and Schwegler (2009) on pension reform in Mexico]. These
are interpretive accounts of policy that, as Shore & Wright (2011, pp. 8, 14) propose, treat policies
as traceable actants within actor networks having complex effects at different sitesorganizing
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contestationwhile also being altered by relations with other actants (people, objects, institutions)
through processes of translation across varied interests, genres, and meanings. Instead of an independent force imagined in models of policy transfer or implementation, policy is a mode of connection or alignment (between agents, institutions, laws, technologies, and discourses) within developments assemblages, articulated through political economy (Shore & Wright 2011, pp. 8, 14).

SOCIAL LIFE IN AIDLAND

Ethnography now turns to the lives of development workers themselvesNGO employees,
consultants, expatriate aid staff, volunteers, and globally networked aid professionalsand to
the social and cultural practices of Aidland (Fechter & Hindman 2011, Mosse 2011a, Fechter
2012; also see Stirrat 2008). A sociology-of-science approach (Verma 2011) traces aspects of
development knowledge (e.g., epistemological closure, policy harmonization) to the sociality
of aid professionals: well knit, class closed, and culturally enclaved in capital cities; globally
connected and permanent; but locally isolated and transient (Eyben 2011, Mosse 2011a).
Contrarily, Lewiss (2011) life-history project shows that despite converging policy ideas on
poverty at home and abroad, the social-institutional boundaries between UK voluntary sector
and overseas development NGOs are entrenched.
Yarrow (2011) suggests a reguring of the anthropology of development around the moral
complexity and meaning making of its workers. He insists that the motivations, optimism, activist
histories, and the faith and friendships drawn from personal narratives of Ghanaian NGO leaders
be taken seriously, not displaced by political critique or an Afro-pessimist view of self-serving
personal relationships (cf. Bornstein 2005). van Gastel (2011) uses life histories to trace politically
communicated, ambiguated, and fragmented Dutch aid policy back to the integration of private
dreams of development. More of this literature is trying to get behind heroic or cynical representations to the social conditions of overseas aid labor (the effects of hypermobility, visibility,
interstitial positions, audit pressures, worker failure, gender roles, and racialized relations),
unpicking experience-framing concepts such as (in)security, guest-hood, and nostalgia (contributions to Fechter & Hindman 2011, Mosse 2011a). Some of this research foregrounds personal
agency and responsibilities, processes of professional or moral selving, friendship work, and the
care of the self as an aspect of the care of the other (Fechter 2012; cf Quarles van Ufford & Giri
2003).
However, as Lewis et al. (2008) note, when the whims, motivations, and failings of personalities
become central in the story of development, ction has a descriptive advantage. Fiction also
sidesteps the dilemma that the things that are of interest to the anthropologist of development
informal relationships, unanticipated events, divergent viewsand from which she develops an
analysis that fullls her professional identity are the very things that, when publicly available,
threaten the reputation of development professionals or institutions. No doubt it is partly
the urgency of stabilizing inherently fragile representations in international development that
generates such abundant reexive backstage self-criticism and irony, hence the many aid worker
blogs (Fechter 2012) and dissident accounts published after a delay (e.g., Grifths 2004; also
see Mosse 2011a). This is a world of carefully negotiated knowledge into which anthropologists
(with their different epistemological assumptions) must enter prepared for strong responses to
their ethnographic accounts, which claim authority but look like dangerous evaluations aligned
to narratives of blame and may well mobilize objections (Mosse 2006, Lashaw 2012). Meanwhile
concern arises about whether this looking inward has diverted anthropological attention away
from the wider context of development within neoliberal political economy and the reproduction
of (global) inequality.
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NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT

By the turn of the millennium, deregulatory adjustment and economic liberalization had
turned national development into a matter of creating the conditions for attracting mobile
capital to enclaves of production of labor-intensive goods for global markets, such as garments
in Bangladesh and telecommunications in Bangalore (Ludden 2005); mining and oil-boom
investment hopped over large areas of unusable Africa, bypassing the national development
framework (Ferguson 2005). In Colliers (2007) inuential framing, the bottom billion
live in the unintegrated fringe or under the curse of ungoverned resource extraction. The
anthropological critique of projects and bureaucratic power has had to give way to ethnographies
of the loss of state power in the government of development; to its dispersal to NGOs, donors,
social entrepreneurs, and private-sector providers (Li 2005); to state withdrawal and reliance
on informal institutions (e.g., in rural Uganda; see Jones 2009); to the hollowing of the ofcial
state (in India), surrounded by powerful brokers, contractors, and crooks who constitute a
shadow state run for private benet (Harriss-White 2003); and to the centrality of informal
social structures of accumulation (caste, gender, and religion) in regulating both markets
and the state (Harriss-White 2003). In the age of neoliberal reform, the terms weak state,
fragile state, crisis state, and collapsed state are especially prominent in the development policy
lexicon.
Anthropologists are among those examining the social irrationality of a neoliberal logic that
selectively integrates into markets, reduces social protection, casualizes labor, and increases inequality and distributional conict, among other ill effects of capitalism in its millennial (messianic, salvic) manifestation (Comaroff & Comaroff 2001, p. 2; Ferguson 2006; Greenhouse 2009;
cf. Robinson 2002). Whereas Marxian perspectives emphasize the underlying advancement of
capitalist class power (Saad-Filho & Johnston 2005), anthropologists often focus on the effects of
neoliberal forms of governmental power: the regulated autonomy and responsibilization of social
space (Kingsher & Maskovsky 2008). They have observed the demobilizing effect of development through marketization as the appropriation and co-option of pre-existing cultural and social
achievements (Harvey 2003, p. 146) that deplete numerous livelihood systems. Elyachar (2005)
accordingly critiques NGO microenterprise initiatives among craftsmen in Cairo and the rubric
of productive social capital that undermines relational value (evident in the evil-eye discourse
on selsh accumulation).
However, anthropologists also nd people resisting new consumer subjectivities [e.g., Coelho
(2005) apropos water privatization in Chennai] and workers refusing to police themselves [as
Gupta (2012) observes in rural Uttar Pradesh]; although, neoliberal developments may also shape
the modes of resistance and mobilization, as (among others) Steur (2011) shows in her account of
social movements in Kerala that turn from socialist to indigenist form. Gupta (2012) argues that
such friction, also arising from gender, caste, or political alignments, impedes and defers the
relaying of Foucaults modalities of government in development (p. 261).
Anthropologists indeed have reason to be wary of recourse to metanarratives of neoliberalism
in understanding violence against the poor (Gupta 2012, pp. 27374). Gupta (2012), for example, discovers continuity in the key effect of bureaucratic arbitrariness and neglect on either side of
a major ideological policy shift from state welfare to empowerment in Indian projects targeting
rural women and children. In parallel, Cross (2010) shows that precariousness and political subjectivity among workers within a so-called special economic zone in south India differ little from
those among the informally regulated majority beyond it: Neoliberalism is unexceptional (cf. Ong
2006). The normal absence of state provision, Ferguson (2010) notes, is the context of schemes of
direct cash transfer in South Africa that use mechanisms of the market to drive poverty reduction;
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he argues that such schemes should be considered problem-solving appropriations of neoliberal

arrangement in the absence of state care.
These examples show that neoliberalism, like development, fails to become a stable object
of anthropological critique (Ferguson 2010). Some apparently neoliberal practices such as audits
in China, as Kipnis (2008) explains, may even be enactments of state socialism. Mitchell (2002)
challenges us to examine neoliberalism, or even capitalism, beyond the frame of its own selfrepresentation. His studies on Egypt show that privatization and the free market program
there abstracted from and misrepresented the actual multilayered political readjustment of rents,
subsidies, and the control of resources (Mitchell 2002, p. 277). His point is that all economic
activity is socio-political being dependent on forms of law, government and corporate power as well
as nonhuman elements (pp. 28991). Further, like projects, neoliberal marketization can also be
examined as an actor network (C
alskan & Callon 2010) so as to discover asymmetries of power in
valuation and the unequally distributed agencements (arrangements or assemblages) that lie behind
market descriptions of the autonomy of calculating agencies (C
alskan & Callon 2010, p. 13).
From Wacquant (2012) comes a different point. Anthropologists will not solve the problem of
a fabricated notion of universalized market rule with the vague concept of owing calculative notions, strategies and technologies, as Wacquant sees Ongs (2006) global assemblage approach.
Neoliberalism is something specic, namely a reengineering and redeployment (not dismantling)
of the state, among other things, both to support commodication (the extension of markets in all
spheres) and to curb the social turbulence caused by neoliberal policies of reregulation through
penal policy (Wacquant 2012, p. 72). The resulting double-gure centaur stateneoliberal at
the top and penal at the bottomis familiar to economically transforming countries such as India.
Here, Gupta (2012) argues, the state has been restructured in favor of industrial capital in ways that
sharply increase inequality, rst through barriers to employment for less-educated, lower-caste,
rural poor in the fast-growing knowledge industries, and second through the reallocation of
property rights in favor of extractive industry and infrastructure in the tribal periphery (Breman
2003, Padel & Das 2010). In the main, democratic pressure for legitimacy directs industrial tax
revenue to huge increases in state welfare programs. But where industrial development threatens
survival in the tribal periphery, an armed Maoist insurgency now prompts a military staging [of]
the sovereignty of the state and a securitization of development (Gupta 2012, p. 286; also see
Chatterjee 2008, Shah 2010). The governance of development through market-led growth strategies, democratization, investment in social protection for those adversely affected, and the securitization of dangerous poverty on the periphery aptly describes international neoliberal development.
THE NEW AID ARCHITECTURE

Beginning in the 1980s, international development policy progressed through addition: structural
adjustment plus governance plus participation plus poverty reduction (Bierschenk 2008, p. 10). By
the late 1990s, governments of poor countries were offered conditional nance to develop their
own overall strategies for growth and poverty reduction [through budgetary support or povertyreduction strategy papers (PRSPs)] in line with neoliberal globalizationmaking markets work
for the poor. The overriding question was how market-led development was to be governed. The
preferred solutionsregulatory institutions, decentralization, democratic processwere harmonized through new donor coordination (OECD 2005, Eyben 2007).
Anthropological analyses here return to concerns with power and discourse and, given how
transnational linkages in the movement of ideas, material resources, technologies and personnel are critical to the care of populations, to the debatable idea of global governmentality
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(Gupta 2012, p. 239; also see Watts 2003 and Gould 2005). Gupta (2010) argues that the PRSP
measures promoted by the World Bank and the IMF frame poverty as a national problem in ways
that remove global inequality and the political economy of capitalism from the public agenda,
thereby diffusing demand for change in global institutions such as US and European agricultural
subsidies, the externalization of pollution costs, and restrictive trade regimes. Meanwhile, Craig
& Porter (2003) suggest that the ranked goals of global economic integration, good governance,
poverty reduction, and safety nets [represent] an attempt to generate a level of global to local
integration and discipline and technical management of marginal economies, governance and
populations unprecedented since colonial times (pp. 5455; cf. Ferguson & Gupta 2002, p. 992).
Ethnographic research on the documents and practices of PRSPs suggests the replacement of
old-style structural adjustment conditionality with the internal discipline of audits and indicators
that do the political work of building compliance with international nancial institution (IFI) demands into the fabric of national administrative orders (Anders 2005, Gould 2005, Mosse 2005b,
Soederberg 2006). The question of the global governance of development has taken anthropologists into a range of international institutions (e.g., IFIs, the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, other United Nations bodies) and to the
local framing of global norms, standards, protocols, and supranational legal regimes (e.g., patent
law, tax law, trade liberalization, industrial licensing norms). Governance questions highlight the
political evasions of ethical consensus, categorical imperatives, and translations (Goldman 2005,
Muller
2008, Garsten & Jacobsson 2011); scattered sovereignties and manipulations by cun
ning states that new development regimes produce (Randeria 2003); and the way rule making
for global governance builds partisan interests into the universal principles and common-sense
models while deecting attention from monopolistic, oligopolistic, or ungovernable international
markets (Soederberg 2006, Mosse 2005b).
Anthropologists examine the delicate work of reconciling disciplining aid regimes with the
high-prole political commitment to national sovereignty and country ownership through rubrics
of partnership or capacity building (Dahl 2001, Gould 2005, Mosse 2005b, van Gastel & Nuijten
2005, van Gastel 2011). They nd aid ofcials eld experience narrowed to familiarity with
the patterns on the carpet of the Ministry of Finance (Eyben 2011, p. 144) but also discover
interinstitutional complexity as a new eldwork site. Placing herself amid the electronic and
social ow of aid harmonization, Pollard (2009) reveals that donor-coordination efforts in Jakarta
so complicate relationships that doubt (about intentions and responses) itself becomes a means
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Politically threatened under conditions of austerity; dwarfed by the giants of climate change, the
rise of China, new conicts, or transnational migration; and attacked on all sides for having perverse
effects (Easterly 2007, Moyo 2010), Western aid claims a shrinking footprint, now repurposed as
part of promoting commerce (old tied aid) or soft-power foreign relations. Three recent trends
are worth highlighting.
Business at the Center: Corporate Social Responsibility and Bottom

of the Pyramid Capitalism
First, business has moved into development. Donor programs involve more public-private partnerships (PPPs) that use markets for service delivery in health or education [see van Gastels
(2011) ethnography of a contraceptive marketing PPP], and at the same time, nonmarket moral
logics gain visibility within corporate capitalism. This merging of aid and business draws together
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anthropologies of development and corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Rajak 2011, Gardner
2012). Some anthropologists study the array of international codes and ethical standards for production and trade that are drawn into development debates under the slogan Trade, not aid.
Studies on, for example, south Indian textiles (De Neve 2009), Costa Rican coffee (Luetchford
2008), and Kenyan owers (Dolan 2008) reveal brokerage and power inequality in accessing fairtrade markets and the disciplining of local producers by traders higher up the chain that produces
ethical value and serves the redemption of wealthier consumers (Rajak 2011, p. 7; also see De
Neve et al. 2008).
Corporations have also made themselves development agencies, setting and implementing
agendas (Rajak 2011, Dolan et al. 2011, Schwittay 2011a, Gardner 2012). Rajaks (2011, pp. 11,
13, 323) point, from research on the mining giant Anglo-America, is not to judge CSR as either
a new ethical turn or a veil for prot but rather to show how the performance of CSR enables
corporations to extend authority over the social order at different levels, to tap the development
expertise of other institutions (states, NGOs), and to render commercial the problem of poverty
that is, to frame it in alignment with corporate agendas captured in the unintentionally revealing
slogan Make poverty business. This goes to the heart of the wider institutional assemblage (Dolan
2012, p. 4) labeled bottom of the pyramid (BoP) capitalism (Prahalad 2005), through which,
Dolan (2012) argues, development itself is outsourced to the under-utilised poor through the
gure of the door-to-door sales woman bringing Coca-Cola or Avon products to retail black spots
in South Africa and Bangladesh, or Hewlett-Packards digital brokers in Costa Rica (Schwittay
2011b), all working within corporate, NGO, and development agency arrangements. Such BoP
entrepreneurs are analyzed as both instruments and beneciaries of processes that change donorrecipient relationships, create legibility to global business, produce entrepreneurial subjectivities
and recode products in ethical terms, while at the same time dividing, differentiating, and depleting
aspects of social life (Dolan 2012).
Governing at the Periphery

Second, while business is centralized in mainstream development, aid donors are redirecting their
attention and resources to frontline states (e.g., Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq) and to zones of ongoing conict (inaccessible during the Cold War) on the periphery of global capitalism (Dufeld
2002, 2007). Treating poverty as the result of the lack or failure of government and of conict and
insecurity (see World Bank 2011) interlinks goals of program delivery for basic needs, security,
and state building, thereby blurring the distinctions between development, humanitarian relief,
and military intervention (Dufeld 2002, 2007; Howell & Lind 2009). The postSeptember 11
securitization of development involves a new liberal interventionism that more obviously serves
political agendas through preemptive development (Soederberg 2004) and ultimately aims,
Dufeld (2002, 2007) suggests, to render populations governable.
Behind this focus on the periphery, Dufeld (2002) sees also at work the normativity of global
market integration that regards conict and new wars, social regression, and criminality as the effects of exclusion from globalizationan idiom of borderland barbarianism justifying capitalist
incorporation on the grounds of security. He suggests, on the contrary, that conict may signal
resistance to or disengagement from liberal market values through forms of exible modernization [informal transborder networks, extralegal shadow economies, even Islamist nonliberal
reinvention (Dufeld 2002, pp. 1,05254; Watts 2003, pp. 711)]variants of postdevelopment
strategies of difference (Escobar 2012). This analysis also points to a wider anthropological critique
of the way durable poverty is exceptionalized rather than understood relationally as also caused or
deepened by ordinary processes of capitalism (Mosse 2010).
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New Donors

Finally, anthropologists have mostly assumed that international aid is about the afuent West and
its others (Mosse 2005a, p. 1), but [g]lobal development is no longer governed by Northern
countries, and the subjects of IFIs are as likely to include Greece and Italy (De Hart 2012,
p. 1360). Aid donors such as China, India, and Russia have entirely different histories and concepts of development cooperation that are only now being explored (Gray 2011, Mawdsley 2012).
Chinas economic diplomacy has drawn the most attention (especially in Africa), but Indian and
Russian forms of development cooperation also depart from the specic moral framing [or purication (van Gastel 2011)] of aid as the unreciprocated gift (Mawdsley 2012; cf. Bornstein 2012)
and focus instead on ideas of mutual benet, South-South solidarity, and national sovereignty
while refusing the Western aid packaging of agendas on governance, environment, or human
rights (Mawdsley 2012). However, debate on Chinese aid, or a distinctive Beijing consensus
model of development invoked as the other of Western aid, indicates the need for a differentiated
ethnographic description of alternative development meanings and relationships (Mohan 2008,
Brautigam 2009). The image of Costa Ricas national stadium, designed and constructed by the
Chinese from imported materials and labor, in which China appears simultaneously as a First
World donor and the quintessential Third World labourer (De Hart 2012, p. 1371) suggests a
signicant reguring of the anthropology of development.
CONCLUSION
Development may or may not be a distinctive apparatus that is separable from other historical
relations between state, society, and culture, but it can be studied as the fraught institutional effort
to make this so (or to resist it)a scenario in which anthropologists are themselves implicated
as policy makers, project workers, advocacy activists, or critics. The usefulness (or otherwise) of
anthropology to international development would be the subject of a separate discussion. Is anthropology the source of expertise on local culture; is it the capacity to build social knowledge
into policy or to promote a localist stance? Such questions enter this debate (Sillitoe 2007). The
anthropology of development does something different. It offers a way of examining the dilemmas
of power and knowledge, sometimes generating, along with development counterparts (agency
staff, campaign organizations, or members of communities), reective awareness of the relational
context of thought and action through collaborative research for organizational learning (e.g.,
Eyben 2006). Whatever such opportunities are (and a good deal more work remains to nd varied
constructive modes of engagement with international development), encounters with development policy and its parallel ways of doing knowledge begin to question anthropologys claim
to epistemological privilege (Green 2009). These encounters introduce questions about anthropologys own epistemic conduct that are explored in some interesting ethnographic experiments,
such as Rottenburgs (2009) ctionalized account, which attempts a symmetrical treatment of the
anthropologist as one among many analytical voices that recount the unhappy unfolding of an aid
project in Africa.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The author is not aware of any afliations, memberships, funding, or nancial holdings that might
be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this review.
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Perspective
Ourselves and Others
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Power and Agency in Precolonial African States
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The Archaeology of Illegal and Illicit Economies
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Evidential Regimes of Forensic Archaeology
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Biomolecular Archaeology
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Biological Anthropology
Agency and Adaptation: New Directions in Evolutionary Anthropology
Eric Alden Smith p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 103
Teeth and Human Life-History Evolution
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Comparative Reproductive Energetics of Human
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Signicance of Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
in Human Evolution
John Hawks p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 433
Linguistics and Communicative Practices
Ethnographic Research on Modern Business Corporations
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Jurisdiction: Grounding Law in Language
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Evidence and Authority in Ethnographic and Linguistic Perspective
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International Anthropology and Regional Studies

Anthropologizing Afghanistan: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
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Borders and the Relocation of Europe
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Roma and Gypsy Ethnicity as a Subject of Anthropological Inquiry
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Sociocultural Anthropology
Disability Worlds
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Health of Indigenous Circumpolar Populations
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The Anthropology of Organ Transplantation
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The Anthropology of International Development
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The Nature/Culture of Genetic Facts
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Globalization and Race: Structures of Inequality, New Sovereignties,
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The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
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The Anthropology of Radio Fields
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The Archaeology of Illegal and Illicit Economies
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Evidential Regimes of Forensic Archaeology
Zoe Crossland p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 121
Biomolecular Archaeology
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Teeth and Human Life-History Evolution

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The Nature/Culture of Genetic Facts
Jonathan Marks p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 247
Evidence and Authority in Ethnographic and Linguistic Perspective
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Signicance of Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes
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