Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance

by Frïdïrique Apffel Marglin (Editor), Stephen A. Marglin (Editor)

Overview

Investigating the ways development strategies have affected traditional cultural values and social practices, this scholarly and imaginative collection of essays critically examines the role of Western technology in development. The contributors include S. Marglin, A. Appadurai, A. Nandy, S. Viswanathan, F. Apffel Marglin, and T. Banuri.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198286943
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/1990
Series:	WIDER Studies in Development Economics
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.97(d)

Table of Contents

1.	Towards the Decolonization of the Mind	1
2.	Development and the Politics of Knowledge: A Critical Interpretation of the Social Role of Modernization	29
3.	Modernization and its Discontents: A Cultural Perspective on Theories of Development	73
4.	Smallpox in Two Systems of Knowledge	102
5.	Modern Medicine and its Non-Modern Critics: A Study in Discourse	145
6.	Technology and the Reproduction of Values in Rural Western India	185
7.	Losing Touch: The Cultural Conditions of Worker Accommodation and Resistance	217
	Index	283