Donald W. Attwood
- Courses6
- Reviews20
- School: McGill University
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- Department: Anthropology
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Montreal, QC - Dates at McGill University: April 2005 - November 2008
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Biography
McGill University - Anthropology
Emeritus Professor at McGill University
Higher Education
Donald
Attwood
Montreal, Canada Area
Decades of research on social change in rural western India. Strong interest in villagers' family histories, in changes caused by irrigation and cash cropping, in the formation of new cooperative and educational institutions (mainly in the period from about 1885 to 1985)
Working now with Shanti George on a book focused on changing inequalities in rural India. We consider inequalities of wealth, gender, education, caste, etc.
Decades of collaboration with my former mentor and friend, B.S. Baviskar, who was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at DSE, Delhi University.
Experience
McGill University
Emeritus Professor
Donald worked at McGill University as a Emeritus Professor
McGill University
Professor
Donald worked at McGill University as a Professor
Education
The University of Chicago
started MA program
Anthropology
McGill University
PhD
Anthropology
McGill University
Emeritus Professor
McGill University
Professor
Fulbright program in India
culture shock
Publications
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Big Is Ugly? How Large-Scale Institutions Prevent Famine in Western India
World Development
Railroads, canal irrigation, effective famine relief, Employment Guarantee Scheme -- all contributed to famine prevention in Maharashtra.
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Big Is Ugly? How Large-Scale Institutions Prevent Famine in Western India
World Development
Railroads, canal irrigation, effective famine relief, Employment Guarantee Scheme -- all contributed to famine prevention in Maharashtra.
Why Do Some Cooperatives Work But Not Others?
Economic and Political Weekly
EPW got my middle initial wrong.
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Big Is Ugly? How Large-Scale Institutions Prevent Famine in Western India
World Development
Railroads, canal irrigation, effective famine relief, Employment Guarantee Scheme -- all contributed to famine prevention in Maharashtra.
Why Do Some Cooperatives Work But Not Others?
Economic and Political Weekly
EPW got my middle initial wrong.
Does Competition Help Cooperation?
The Journal of Development Studies
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Big Is Ugly? How Large-Scale Institutions Prevent Famine in Western India
World Development
Railroads, canal irrigation, effective famine relief, Employment Guarantee Scheme -- all contributed to famine prevention in Maharashtra.
Why Do Some Cooperatives Work But Not Others?
Economic and Political Weekly
EPW got my middle initial wrong.
Does Competition Help Cooperation?
The Journal of Development Studies
Peasants versus Capitalists
The Journal of Asian Studies
Why Some of the Poor Get Richer: Economic Change and Mobility in Western India
Current Anthropology
How I Learned to Do Incorrect Research
Economic and Political Weekly
How my field research in western India taught me to question widely held assumptions about the supposedly static and tradition-bound lives of villagers.
Big Is Ugly? How Large-Scale Institutions Prevent Famine in Western India
World Development
Railroads, canal irrigation, effective famine relief, Employment Guarantee Scheme -- all contributed to famine prevention in Maharashtra.
Why Do Some Cooperatives Work But Not Others?
Economic and Political Weekly
EPW got my middle initial wrong.
Does Competition Help Cooperation?
The Journal of Development Studies
Peasants versus Capitalists
The Journal of Asian Studies
Irrigation and Imperialism
The Journal of Development Studies
