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

Contributor(s):

Hobart, Mark

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780203410219
0203410211
9781134896271
1134896271
9781134896318
113489631X
9781134896325
1134896328
1280442743
9781280442742
9786610442744
6610442746
1138145513
9781138145511

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

303.48/2 20

LOC classification:

GN366 .A58 1993eb

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.