| An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance Contributor(s): Hobart, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415079594 ISBN-13: 9780415079594 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1993 Annotation: This provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, debunks the assumption that the application of Western knowledge in the implementation of economic and social development is an unqualified success. The author argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the result of an inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focusing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world ultimately perpetuates ignorance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| LCCN: 92045834 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.56" W x 8.68" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. |