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Development Brokers and Translators
David Lewis
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Description for Development Brokers and Translators
Paperback. The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. This book shows how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships. Editor(s): Lewis, David; Mosse, David. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: GTF; JHMP; JKSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists with practical experience in development to show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships. The world that this ethnography of development reveals does not divide neatly into the developers and the developed, perpetrators and victims, domination and resistance, or the incompatible rationalities of scientific and indigenous knowledge. It is a world in which interests and practices ... Read more
The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists with practical experience in development to show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships. The world that this ethnography of development reveals does not divide neatly into the developers and the developed, perpetrators and victims, domination and resistance, or the incompatible rationalities of scientific and indigenous knowledge. It is a world in which interests and practices ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Kumarian Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
West Hartford, CT, United States
ISBN
9781565492172
SKU
V9781565492172
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