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An Anthropological Critique of Development : The Growth of Ignorance

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002

Online-Ressource (248 p)

Englisch

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: the growth of ignorance?; Segmentary knowledge: a Whalsay sketch; Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge; Cultivation: knowledge or performance?; His lordship at the Cobblers' well; Is death the same everywhere? contexts of knowing and doubting; Scapegoat and magic charm: law in development theory and practice; Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development policy; The negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy

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Print version: An Anthropological Critique of Development : The Growth of Ignorance

978-0-415-07959-4

978-0-415-07959-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-203-41021-9 ( : 173.43 (NL))

GN366 .A58 1993eb ; GN366

303.44 ; 303.48/2     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Acculturation ; Economic development ; Social aspects ; Intercultural communication ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Technical assistance ; Anthropological aspects ; Electronic books

Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object.By focussing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the c