Negotiating Local Knowledge: Power and Identity in Development FROM THE PUBLISHER
The contributors to this volume offer an original and exciting new approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrated 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 on the intricate issues involved, and their findings have important implications for anthropology, development studies and other related disciplines.
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The contributors to this volume offer an original and exciting new approach to debates about indigenous knowledge. Concentrated 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 on the intricate issues involved, and their findings have important implications for anthropology, development studies and other related disciplines.
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