Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-Ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos

Stein, William W.

ISBN 10: 0761826513 / ISBN 13: 9780761826514

Published by University Press Of America, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-Ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761826513
• ISBN 13: 9780761826514
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Vicos Project was a major effort to apply anthropology to community development in a rural community of Andean Peru in the 1950s. Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru is a retrospective examination of the Vicos research and development project through a poststructuralist lens. William Stein details the work of North American researchers, with emphasis on factors that limited their capacity to engage in development. Stein endeavors to apply the work of the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, as an aid in the interpretation of events and reactions of both North American and Peruvian researchers.

About the Author

William W. Stein is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech University.