ISBN:
9780415079594
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (248 p)
Series Statement:
EIDOS (European Inter-University Development Opportunities Study Group)
Parallel Title:
Print version An Anthropological Critique of Development : The Growth of Ignorance
DDC:
303.44
Keywords:
Acculturation
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Economic development ; Social aspects
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Intercultural communication
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Technical assistance ; Anthropological aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western MexicoPotatoes and knowledge; Name index; Subject index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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