Participating in Development
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anthropology of development practice
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ethnographic methodologies
GIS Project
IK
indigenous
Indigenous Knowledge Research
Indigenous Peoples
interdisciplinary fieldwork
Interdisciplinary Research
knowledge
knowledge integration models
Knowledge Traditions
local
Local Knowledge
Low Heritability Traits
Maize Breeding
Marginal Environments
NGO Sector
Oromia Regional State
Oromo Communities
participatory
participatory research methods
Participatory Rural Appraisal
PAU
peoples
Plant Breeding
research
rural development studies
scientific
Scientific Plant Breeding
sillitoe
Sillitoe 1998a
Social Science Research
Soil Scientist
Tassel Colour
TGLP
traditional
UN
Yield Spillovers
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- ISBN 9780415258685
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative approaches. One of those being pioneered is 'indigenous knowledge', which aims to make local voices heard more effectively. However while it is increasingly acknowledged in development contexts, it is yet to be validated and accepted by anthropologists. It is self-evident to any anthropologist that effective development assistance will benefit from some understanding of local knowledge and practices. This therefore puts anthropology and anthropologists at the centre of development. This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. First of all how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it as it currently lacks disciplinary coherence. Secondly once this definition is achieved what methodologies should be used in such an interdisciplinary research endeavour when it must meet the demands of development (cost- and time-effective, intelligible to non-experts) while not compromising anthropological expectations. The new opportunities and their methodological implications are addressed in the chapters of this book in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts and demonstrate how wide-reaching and how crucially important this debate has become. Participating in Development is a thought provoking and challenge collection. Its authors both define and validate the role of the anthropologist in development as well of development in anthropology.
Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Alan Bicker is a research fellow at the University of Kent. Johan Pottier is a Professor of African Anthropology and Head of Department at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.
