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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Negotiating Local Knowledge
• Subtitle: Power and Identity in Development
• Author: Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780745320069
• ID: 04671258
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 135 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. April 2003

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