General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Development from Below -- Peasants and Planistrators in Eastern Africa 1960-1970 -- The Perils of Unconventional Anthropology -- Use of Anthropologists in Project Appraisal by the World Bank -- Thoughts on the Rclevance of Social Anthropology for Development Planning: The Case of Nepal -- Social Science, Food, and Nutrition -- Anthropology, Government, and Development Planning in India -- Rural Participation in Planning -- Why Interdisciplinary Studies? -- Conflict and Change as Aspects of Development -- The Efficiency of Traditional Agriculture, Phases of Development, and Induced Economic Change in the Waidina Valley, Fiji -- Reciprocity, Redistribution, and Prestige Among the Polynesians of the Society Islands -- Interdisciplinary Research on Uncontrolled Urban Growth as a Contribution to National Development: The Pakistan Case -- The Strategy of Peasant Mobilization: Some Cases from Latin America and Southeast Asia -- The Anthropologist as Societal Ombudsman -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.