1st Edition
An Anthropological Critique of Development The Growth of Ignorance
Edited By Mark Hobart
Copyright 1993
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of... Read more
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
Biography
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.
