(This course will be taught in Japanese for the academic year 2024, and in the following year in English as a GIGA course.)
Since the end of the Second World War, and with the independence of a great number of countries, the so-called "development" project was enacted globally to improve the living standards of the so-called "developing countries." This process was accompanied by the expansion of academic knowledge of these regions, and made way for interdisciplinary and problem-solving oriented social science. In this lecture, we will explore this process from the point of view of anthropology, and with a regional focus on Latin America.