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Food for thought : ancient visions and new experiments of rural people / Bertus Haverkort and Wim Hiemstra, (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Rural population--Information resources.
- Rural population.
- Information resources.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leusden, The Netherlands : ETC/COMPAS ; Bangalore, India : Books for Change ; London ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book presents new insights about the knowledge systems of rural people. It goes beyond the technical knowledge embodied in traditional farming, land use and health practices by dealing with their underlying ancient worldviews and cosmovisions. It draws some general conclusions about the holistic nature, strengths and limitations of these bodies of knowledge and describes how in various countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe some development agencies are supporting rural people and their traditional leaders in carrying out practical experiments based on local concepts.
- ISBN:
- 1856497224
- 1856497232
- OCLC:
- 40589096
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