Development within third world countries

Development, a planned process of change brought to the third world by an outside source, is mainly focused on industrialization and the implantation of new technology. Development practices that are used are now seemingly becoming the instrument to organize the underdeveloped post-colonial societies. Essentially we are devaluing all non-western cultures, and trying to insert them into our own culture. We criticize these governmental programs for disregarding pre-existing communities and hierarchies as well as destroying the …

…research on the society, they often create problems among the general community (e.g. age and gender). The anthropologist can be the middleman of all development projects. We can be the ones that can converse with both groups in order to let the project work well. Gardner is proposing to us ideas on how an anthropologist could be used to help the developers do their job correctly, and not fail as they most often do.