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An anthropological critique of development : the growth of ignorance / edited by Mark Hobart.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation.
- Intercultural communication.
- Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects.
- Technical assistance.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Economic development.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
- 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; Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western MexicoPotatoes and knowledge; Name index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-89631-X
- 1-280-44274-3
- 9786610442744
- 0-203-41021-1
- 9780203410219
- OCLC:
- 647379659
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