Anthropological critique of development: the growth of ignorance (Record no. 97708)
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| fixed length control field | 02116nam a2200145Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0415079594 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hobart, Mart |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Anthropological critique of development: the growth of ignorance |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009 |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi,235 p. |
| Other physical details | 22 cm ; Pbk |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction : the growth of ignorance? / Mark Hobart --<br/>Segmentary knowledge : a Whalsay sketch / Anthony P. Cohen --<br/>Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge / Walter E.A. van Beek --<br/>Cultivation : knowledge or performance? / Paul Richards --<br/>His lordship at the Cobblers' well / Richard Burghart --<br/>Is death the same everywhere? : contexts of knowing and doubting / Piers Vitebsky --<br/>Scapegoat and magic charm : law in development theory and practice / Franz von Benda-Beckmann --<br/>Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development policy / Philip Quarles van Ufford --<br/>The negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy / Elisabeth Croll --<br/>Bridging two worlds : an ethnography of bureaucrat-peasant relations in western Mexico / Alberto Arce and Norman Long --<br/>Potatoes and knowledge / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, debunks the assumption that the application of Western knowledge in the implementation of economic and social development is an unqualified success. The author argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the result of an inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focusing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world ultimately perpetuates ignorance |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Acculturation |
| -- | Social Sciences |
| -- | Intercultural communication |
| -- | Knowledge, Sociology of |
| -- | Economic development--Social aspects |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| GSB Collection | 25/03/2010 | 303.48 ANT | 39329 | 29/04/2013 | 22/06/2019 | Books |