Doing development and writing culture
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | The University of Manchester |
| ANO | 2009 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Anthropological Theory |
| ISSN | 1463-4996 |
| E-ISSN | 1741-2641 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499609356043 |
| CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article explores the implications of different knowledge practices in anthropology and international development. Knowledge in development is not a straightforward matter of knowledge about context and devising actions. International development practice is knowledge explicitly constituted as a form of action. Anthropological knowledge claims to separate knowledge from action, first, by making knowledge about the past actions of others — representations — and, second, by representing its own knowledge as abstracted from its practice in the present. The absence of anthropological knowledge from development practice is not a matter of the relation between different kinds of knowledge which could be brought together, but is a product of the ontological basis of different practices.