Development and local knowledge : new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture / edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Hunting for theory, gathering ideology; Powerful knowledge: Applications in a cultural context; Management of knowledge and social transformation: A case study from Guatemala; Indigenous knowledge confronts development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea; The knowledge of indigenous desire. Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea; Close encounters of the Third World kind: Indigenous knowledge and relations to land
Summary
This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change
