An Anthropological Critique of Development

The Growth of Ignorance
Herausgeber: Hobart, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781138145511
• ISBN-10: 1138145513
• Artikelnr.: 71641031

Autorenporträt

Mark Hobart is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is a co-founder of EIDOS.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the growth of ignorance? 1 Segmentary knowledge: a Whalsay
sketch 2 Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge 3
Cultivation: knowledge or performance? 4 His lordship at the Cobblers' well
5 Is death the same everywhere? contexts of knowing and Doubting 6
Scapegoat and magic charm: law in development theory and Practice 7
Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development Policy 8 The
negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy 9
Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat[1]peasant relations in
western Mexico 10 Potatoes and knowledge