In this branch of anthropology, the term development refers to the social action made by different agents (institutions, business, enterprise, states, independent volunteers) who are trying to modify the economic, technical, political or/and social life of a given place in the world, especially in impoverished, formerly colonized regions.
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Olivier de Sardan J.-P. 1995, Anthropologie et développement : essai en socio-anthropologie du changement social.
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