An Anthropological critique of development : the growth of ignorance /
An Anthropological critique of development : the growth of ignorance /
edited by Mark Hobart.
- xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the growth of ignorance? / Mark Hobart -- Segmentary knowledge : a Whalsay sketch / Anthony P. Cohen -- Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Cultivation : knowledge or performance? / Paul Richards -- His lordship at the Cobblers' well / Richard Burghart -- Is death the same everywhere? : contexts of knowing and doubting / Piers Vitebsky -- Scapegoat and magic charm : law in development theory and practice / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development policy / Philip Quarles van Ufford -- The negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy / Elisabeth Croll -- Bridging two worlds : an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western Mexico / Alberto Arce and Norman Long -- Potatoes and knowledge / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.
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92045834
Acculturation.
Intercultural communication.
Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects
Economic development--Social aspects
Knowledge, Sociology of
GN366 / .A58 1993
303.482
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the growth of ignorance? / Mark Hobart -- Segmentary knowledge : a Whalsay sketch / Anthony P. Cohen -- Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge / Walter E.A. van Beek -- Cultivation : knowledge or performance? / Paul Richards -- His lordship at the Cobblers' well / Richard Burghart -- Is death the same everywhere? : contexts of knowing and doubting / Piers Vitebsky -- Scapegoat and magic charm : law in development theory and practice / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development policy / Philip Quarles van Ufford -- The negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy / Elisabeth Croll -- Bridging two worlds : an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western Mexico / Alberto Arce and Norman Long -- Potatoes and knowledge / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg.
0415079586 9780415079587 0415079594 9780415079594
92045834
Acculturation.
Intercultural communication.
Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects
Economic development--Social aspects
Knowledge, Sociology of
GN366 / .A58 1993
303.482