Indigenous Organizations and Development (Studies in Indigenous Knowledge and Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853393215 ISBN 13: 9781853393211

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

Indigenous organizations are local-level institutions with a community base, such as women's groups, ethnic associations, traditional religious groups, and a wide variety of other social groups.

About this title

About the Authors

From 2008 to November 2011, Peter Blunt held a senior (level GH) staff position with the World Bank in Jakarta, as programme manager of the multi-donor Decentralisation Support Facility that is supporting the government’s programme of decentralisation. He is a consultant specialising in governance and public sector management in developing countries. He is currently a Freelance consultant at Blunt and Associates P/L, Sydney, Australia.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853393215
• ISBN 13: 9781853393211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Blunt Peter, Warren D Michael