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The Cultural Dimension of Development: Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IT Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development) - Hardcover
After nearly fifty years of international development, increasing attention is being paid to the potential of indigenous knowledge, which is usually considered in relation to one particular domain - agriculture, forestry, health, veterinary science etc. This volume includes forty-six papers, from a wide variety of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, geography, agricultural sciences and others. Contributors come from academia and from international organizations. There are twenty-seven case studies and six general conceptual papers. The main conclusions from this impressive array of expertise is that local people do know a great deal about their environment, in which they have often lived for generations; and this knowledge must be taken into account in the planning and implementation of development, if this is to be acceptable to the people, an effective. These essays provide powerful evidence in support of these two propositions.
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Presents overwhelming evidence, from a range of disciplines, that local people do know a great deal about their environment. This knowledge must be taken into account in the planning and implementation of development to be both acceptable and effective. Forty-six contributions from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and agricultural scientists (among others) in academia and international organizations provide both case study material and general conceptual papers. The interdisciplinary approach of this book makes it an essential tool for those studying indigenous knowledge systems.
About the Author:
Professor Dennis Michael Warren was an anthropologist and leading Africanist scholar who taught at Iowa State University from 1972 to1997. Professor Warren was especially interested in indigenous knowledge and rural development in Africa. His interest in indigenous knowledge led him to the study of art, culture, the rural economy and traditional healing in Ghana and Nigeria and to comparative studies of other societies.
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- PublisherITDG Publishing
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1853392642
- ISBN 13 9781853392641
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
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