Participating in development : approaches to indigenous knowledge /

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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-, Bicker, Alan, Pottier, Johan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:A.S.A. monographs ; 39.
Subjects:
Ethnoscience > Developing countries.
Ethnoecology > Developing countries.
Technical assistance > Anthropological aspects > Developing countries.
Community development > Developing countries.
Applied anthropology > Developing countries.
Natural resources management areas > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Applied anthropology
Community development
Ethnoscience
Ethnoecology
Natural resources management areas
Technical assistance > Anthropological aspects
Developing countries
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Participant observation to participatory development: making anthropology work / Paul Sillitoe
  • Upsetting the sacred balance: can the study of indigenous knowledge reflect cosmic connectedness? / Darrell Posey
  • Beyond the cognitive paradigm: majority knowledges and local discourses in a non-Western donor society / John Clammer
  • Ethnotheory, ethnopraxis: ethnodevelopment in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia / Aneesa Kassam
  • Canadian first nations' experiences with international development / Peter Croal, Wes Darou
  • Globalizing indigenous knowledge / Paul Sillitoe
  • Negotiating with knowledge at development interfaces: anthropology and the quest for participation / Michael Schönhuth
  • Indigenous knowledge, power and parity: models of knowledge integration / Trevor Purcell, Elizabeth Akinyi Onjoro
  • Interdisciplinary research and GIS: why local and indigenous knowledge are discounted / John R. Campbell
  • Indigenous and scientific knowledge of plant breeding: similarities, differences and implications for collaboration / David A. Cleveland, Daniela Soleri
  • 'Déjà vu, all over again', again: reinvention and progess in applying local knowledge to development / Roy Ellen.

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