Donald Attwood

 Donald Attwood

Donald W. Attwood

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  • Reviews20

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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

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