Beschreibung:
Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Introduction: the growth of ignorance? 1 Segmentary knowledge: a Whalsay sketch 2 Processes and limitations of Dogon agricultural knowledge 3 Cultivation: knowledge or performance? 4 His lordship at the Cobblers' well 5 Is death the same everywhere? contexts of knowing and Doubting 6 Scapegoat and magic charm: law in development theory and Practice 7 Knowledge and ignorance in the practices of development Policy 8 The negotiation of knowledge and ignorance in China's development strategy 9 Bridging two worlds: an ethnography of bureaucrat[1]peasant relations in western Mexico 10 Potatoes and knowledge