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Marja-Liisa Swantz has spent a lifetime conducting participatory action research in Tanzania, and In Search of Living Knowledge encapsulates her reactions. She started her career in 1952 in Tanganyika as an instructor to the first generation of women teachers at Ashira Teacher's Training Colleg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swantz, Marja-Liisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, [2016]
Subjects:
Participant observation > Tanzania.
Action research > Tanzania.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Economic development > Tanzania.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
Tanzania.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Action research.
Economic development.
Participant observation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Anthropology and knowledge production
  • 3. Paths to participation in development research
  • 4. On whose culture is development built?
  • 5. Women's ways of sustaining life
  • 6. Between the "traditional" and the "modern"
  • 7. First steps in participatory research
  • 8. Jipemoyo : development and culture
  • 9. Participatory research in support of public health training
  • 10. Knowledge production for development
  • Conclusion.

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