Anthropology in the Making

Laurent Vidal is an anthropologist at France’s Institute of Development Research (IRD), where he is a former director of the Department of Social Sciences. A specialist in health issues in Africa, his work over the past two decades has melded research on development questions in the field of health with critical analysis of the practice of research itself.

Introduction: The Gift, the Struggle and the Vow Part I: All Together Now?: Needs and Constraints in the Interdisciplinary Encounter 1. A Project Emerges 2. Progress Along a Slippery Slope Part II: Anthropology Face-to-Face with Health Actors 3. Negotiating the Place of Anthropology 4. From Imagined Research to Real Intervention Part III: Exposition 5. The Feedback Meeting as Research Terrain 6. New Anthropological Contexts 7. Which Anthropology, and for What Purpose?. Conclusion: Intersections and Embeddings.