Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Summary:A timely and up-to-date volume that presents a genuine contribution to the debates over indigenous knowledge. Contents: 1. Negotiating local knowledge: An introduction / Johan Potter 2. A possible explanation for the lack of explanation: Or, 'why the master builder can't explain what he knows' (Yemen) / Trevor H.J. Marchand 3. Explosive narratives: The articulation of 'nuclear knowledge' in Mumbai, India / Raminder Kaur 4. Knowledge interfaces and practices of negotiation: cases from a women's group in Bolivia and an oil refinery in Wales, United Kingdom / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher 5. Anti-social 'social development'? Governmentality, indigenousness and the DFID approach on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner 6. 'All been washed away now': tradition, change and indigenous knowledge in a Queensland Aboriginal land claim / Benjamin Richard Smith 7. Managing natural resources in Eastern Algarve, Portugal: an assessment of the policy uses of local knowledge(s) / Manuel João Ramos, Antonio Medeiros, Pedro Sena, Sofia Tomaz and Gonzalo Praza 8. Interfaces of knowledge: the revival of temples in West Hunan, China / Mary Rack 9. The global flow of knowledge on war trauma: the role of the 'Cinnamon Garden culture' in Sri Lanka / Alex Genti-Pillen 10. Modern information warfare versus empirical knowledge: the international framing of 'the crisis' in Eastern Zaire, 1996 / Johan Pottier Pacific ring of fire: Negotiation and.