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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451223203321

Titolo

Participating in development : approaches to indigenous knowledge / / edited by Paul Sillitoe, Alan Bicker, and Johan Pottier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-25868-5

1-134-51405-0

1-280-06894-9

0-203-42860-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

ASA monographs ; ; v. 34

Altri autori (Persone)

BickerAlan

PottierJohan

SillitoePaul <1949->

Disciplina

307.1/4

Soggetti

Ethnoscience - Developing countries

Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Developing countries

Technical assistance - Anthropological aspects - Developing countries

Community development - Developing countries

Applied anthropology - Developing countries

Natural resources management areas - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Participant observation to participatory development: making anthropology work; Upsetting the sacred balance: can the study of indigenous knowledge reflect cosmic connectedness?; Beyond the cognitive paradigm: majority knowledges and local discourses in a non-Western donor society; Ethnotheory, ethnopraxis: ethnodevelopment in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia; Canadian First Nations' experiences with international development; Globalizing indigenous knowledge

Negotiating with knowledge at development interfaces: anthropology and the quest for participationIndigenous knowledge, power and parity:



models of knowledge integration; Interdisciplinary research and GIS: why local and indigenous knowledge are discounted; Indigenous and scientific knowledge of plant breeding: similarities, differences and implications for collaboration; 'Dej vu, all over again', again: reinvention and progress in applying local

Sommario/riassunto

This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations.