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How to find out what people in rural communities really need (with Robert Chambers)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Questionnaire Surveys in Social Anthropology

People were using social anthropology and questionnaire surveys, you said. What sort of things were going wrong in your view or going off track? Oh, well, social anthropologists were focusing very much on the issues and the concepts and the mindsets and categories which they had learned from university training. So that was something very much to be got over. And I think on the whole it was quite successful to liberate social anthropologists from the slavery of the fixed categories and concepts that they had been taught.

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