Negotiating Local Knowledge - Power and Identity in Development.

POTTIER, JOHAN / BICKER, ALAN / Sillitoe, Paul (Editors).

ISBN 10: 0745320066 / ISBN 13: 9780745320069

Published by London. Pluto Press. 2003., 2003

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Paperback. 332,(4)pp. 1st edition. 8vo. Covers slightly soiled slightly crinkled. Name on Endpaper. Text underlining. Slightly used. Includes: Explosive narratives, the articulation of 'nuclear knowledge' in Mumbai, by Raminder Kaur / 'All been washed away', tradition, change and indigenous knowledge in a Queensland Aboriginal land claim, by Benjamin Richard Smoth / Interfaces of knowledge, the revival of temples in West Hunan, China, by Mary Rack / et al. ISBN 0745320066.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Local Knowledge - Power and Identity in Development.
• Publisher: London. Pluto Press. 2003.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745320066
• ISBN 13: 9780745320069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

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.Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.Alan Bicker is at the Dept of Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury.