An anthropological critique of development : the growth of ignorance / / edited by Mark Hobart

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 303.48/2
• Soggetto topico: Acculturation; Intercultural communication; Technical assistance - Anthropological aspects; Economic development - Social aspects; Knowledge, Sociology of
• Altri autori: HobartMark
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An anthropological critique of development
• ISBN: 1-134-89631-X; 1-280-44274-3; 9786610442744; 0-203-41021-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783734003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II