Negotiating local knowledge
Subtitle: power and identity in development
By: edited by Johan Pottier, Alan Bicker, and Paul Sillitoe
Contributors: Bicker, Alan; Sillitoe, Paul; Pottier, Johan
Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government; Political anthropology; Ethnophilosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Contents: 1. Negotiating local knowledge: An introduction / Johan Potter; title: 2. A possible explanation for the lack of explanation: Or, 'why the master builder can't explain what he knows' (Yemen) / Trevor H.J. Marchand; title: 3. Explosive narratives: The articulation of 'nuclear knowledge' in Mumbai, India / Raminder Kaur; title: 4. Knowledge interfaces and practices of negotiation: cases from a women's group in Bolivia and an oil refinery in Wales, United Kingdom / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher; title: 5. Anti-social 'social development'?  Governmentality, indigenousness and the DFID approach on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner; title: 6. 'All been washed away now': tradition, change and indigenous knowledge in a Queensland Aboriginal land claim / Benjamin Richard Smith; title: 7. Managing natural resources in Eastern Algarve, Portugal: an assessment of the policy uses of local knowledge(s) / Manuel João Ramos, Antonio Medeiros, Pedro Sena, Sofia Tomaz and Gonzalo Praza; title: 8. Interfaces of knowledge: the revival of temples in West Hunan, China / Mary Rack; title: 9. The global flow of knowledge on war trauma: the role of the 'Cinnamon Garden culture' in Sri Lanka / Alex Genti-Pillen; title: 10. Modern information warfare versus empirical knowledge: the international framing of 'the crisis' in Eastern Zaire, 1996 / Johan Pottier; title: Pacific ring of fire: Negotiation and