Alan Bicker / Paul Sillitoe (eds.)

Participating in Development

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge
Herausgeber: Bicker, Alan; Sillitoe, Paul; Pottier, Johan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on how to define indigenous knowledge as well as which disciplines should take on the responsibility of its investigation. It also speaks practically about what methodologies should best be used in researching this new field, considering the demands of development while not compromising anthropological expectations.

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415258685
• ISBN-10: 0415258685
• Artikelnr.: 22014566

Autorenporträt

Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Alan Bicker is a research fellow at the University of Kent. Johan Pottier is a Professor of African Anthropology and Head of Department at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Participant observation to participatory development: making
anthropology work Paul Sillitoe 2. Upsetting the sacred balance: can the
study of indigenous knowledge reflect cosmic connectedness? Darrell Posey
3. Beyond the cognitive paradigm: majority knowledges and local discourses
in a non-Western donor society John Clammer 4. Ethnotheory, ethnopraxis:
ethnodevelopment in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia Aneesa Kassam 5.
Canadian First Nations' experiences with international development Peter
Croal and Wes Darou 6. Globalizing indigenous knowledge Paul Sillitoe 7.
Negotiating with knowledge at development interfaces: anthropology and the
quest for participation Michael Schonhuth 8. Indigenous knowledge, power
and parity: models of knowledge integration Trevor Purcell and Elizabeth
Akinyi Onjoro 9. Interdisciplinary research and GIS: why local and
indigenous knowledge is discounted John Campbell 10. Indigenous and
scientific knowledge of plant breeding: similarities, differences and
implications for collaboration David Cleveland and Daniela Soleri 11. 'Deja
vu, all over again', again: reinvention and progress in applying local
knowledge to development Roy Ellen