Dominating Knowledge Development, Culture, and Resistance
by Marglin, Frédérique Apffel; Marglin, Stephen A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2028-01-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Towards the Decolonization of the Mind | p. 1 |
| Development and the Politics of Knowledge: A Critical Interpretation of the Social Role of Modernization | p. 29 |
| Modernization and its Discontents: A Cultural Perspective on Theories of Development | p. 73 |
| Smallpox in Two Systems of Knowledge | p. 102 |
| Modern Medicine and its Non-Modern Critics: A Study in Discourse | p. 145 |
| Technology and the Reproduction of Values in Rural Western India | p. 185 |
| Losing Touch: The Cultural Conditions of Worker Accommodation and Resistance | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 283 |
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