Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367012878)

Muneera Salem-Murdock is senior research associate and executive officer at the Institute for Development Anthropology and an adjunct assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton. She has carried out research in Sudan, Tunisia, Jordan, South Yemen, and Senegal on irrigation, household production systems, and differentiation, and has served as consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Agency for International Development. Dr. Salem-Murdock is the author of Arabs and Nubians in New Haifa: A Study of Settlement and Irrigation (University of Utah Press, 1989). Michael M Horowitz, professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and director of the Institute for Development Anthropology, has carried out research among farming and pastoral peoples in Senegal, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, the Sudan, Zaire, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Jamaica, and Martinique. In 1974-1975 he served as regional anthropologist and director of applied social science research for AID's Regional Economic Development Services Office for West Africa, and from 1979 to 1984 he was senior social science advisor to AID's Office of Evaluation. He coedited Anthropology and Rural Development in West Africa and Lands at Risk in the Third World. He received the Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Monica Sella received her master's degree in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin and has carried out field research in the Senegal Valley for the Land Tenure Center and for the Institute for Development Anthropology.