Anthropology
Negotiating Local Knowledge
Power and Identity in Development
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Edited by: Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe
- ISBN: 9780745320069
- Extent: 344pp
- Release Date: 20 Apr 2003
- Size: 215mm x 135mm
- Format: Paperback
- Category: Anthropology
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The contributors to this volume offer an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrating on the political economy of knowledge construction and dissemination, they look at the variety of ways in which development policies are received and constructed, to reveal the ways in which local knowledges are appropriated and recast, either by local elites or by development agencies.
Until now, debates about indigenous knowledge have largely been conducted in terms of agricultural and environmental issues such as bio-piracy and gene patenting. The contributors to this volume break new ground by opening up the theoretical debate to include areas
such as post-war traumatic stress counselling, representations of nuclear capability, architecture, mining, and the politics of eco-tourism.
Their findings have important implications for anthropology, development studies and other related disciplines.
About The Author
Johan Pottier teaches in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London.
Alan Bicker is at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.
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