This is a text on South-East Asia which examines the relations between anthropology and development in both their theoretical and practical dimensions. The book focuses on the problematical engagements between anthropologists and administrators from the colonial period onwards.

This is the first text on South-East Asia to examine the relations between anthropology and development in both their theoretical and practical dimensions. This book covers a range of anthropological contributions to development as well as case-studies taken from a variety of fields, including resettlement, tourism, health care, gender, and ecology.