Polly Hill spent her long, productive, and at times controversial career crossing and contesting disciplinary boundaries. She graduated in economics at Cambridge, but her doctorate was in social anthropology—with economist Joan Robinson as dissertation supervisor. Her thirteen years at the University of Ghana were initially in economics, then in African studies, and her readership at Cambridge was in Commonwealth studies. As a woman in several male-dominated academic disciplines without a secure base in any (and with distinctive, unorthodox opinions in each), she never obtained a tenure-track appointment despite ten books and fifty scholarly articles. Her books drew attention to the underrecognized agency of indigenous entrepreneurs while her Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for the Prosecution (1986) critiqued a discipline, disciplinary boundaries, and outside experts, both mainstream and radical.

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波利山：跨越人类学、经济学、非洲研究和创业研究的界限并与之竞争

波莉希尔度过了她漫长、富有成效、有时颇具争议的职业生涯，跨越和挑战学科界限。她毕业于剑桥大学经济学专业，但她的博士学位是社会人类学——经济学家琼·罗宾逊担任论文导师。她在加纳大学的 13 年最初是经济学，然后是非洲研究，她在剑桥的读者群是英联邦研究。作为一名女性，她在几个男性主导的学科中没有任何稳固的基础（并且在每个学科中都有独特的、非正统的观点），尽管有十本书和五十篇学术文章，她从未获得终身职位的任命。她的书引起了人们对土著企业家未被充分认识的机构的关注，而她审判中的发展经济学：起诉的人类学案例(1986) 批判了一个学科、学科界限和外部专家，包括主流和激进的。