An Anthropological critique of development :  the growth of ignorance / 
edited by Mark Hobart. 
 - xi, 246 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415079586 9780415079587 0415079594 9780415079594 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92045834 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Acculturation.<br/>Intercultural communication.<br/>Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects<br/>Economic development--Social aspects<br/>Knowledge, Sociology of
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN366  / .A58 1993 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.482