An Anthropological Critique of Development

The Growth of Ignorance

By: Mark Hobart (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 September 1993 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Sociology Society & Culture

Preface	p. x
The Schoolmaster of the Future	p. xii
Introduction The Growth of Ignorance?	p. 1
Segmentary Knowledge: a Whalsay Sketch	p. 31
Processes and Limitations of Dogon Agricultural Knowledge	p. 43
Cultivation: Knowledge or Performance?	p. 61
References	p. 76
His Lordship at the Cobblers' Well	p. 79
Is Death the Same Everywhere? Contexts of Knowing and Doubting	p. 100
Scapegoat and Magic Charm: Law in Development Theory and Practice	p. 116
Knowledge and Ignorance in the Practices of Development Policy	p. 135
The Negotiation of Knowledge and Ignorance in China's Development Strategy	p. 161
Bridging Two Worlds: an Ethnography of Bureaucrat-Peasant Relations in Western Mexico	p. 179
Potatoes and Knowledge	p. 209
References	p. 226
Name Index	p. 228
Subject Index	p. 232
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