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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • ISBN-10:  063121917X
  • ISBN-10:  063121917X
  • ISBN-13:  9780631219170
  • ISBN-13:  9780631219170
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Pages:  392
  • Pages:  392
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2002
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2002
  • SKU:  063121917X-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  063121917X-11-MPOD
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This book of readings gathers together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Pathways to culture and development: Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech.

Part I: Modernizing Cultures:.

1. The Grocer and the Theif: A Parable: Daniel Lerner.

2. Modernization Ideals: Gunnar Myrdal.

3. A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization: Samuel P Huntington.

4. Divided Market Cultures in China. Gender, Enterprise and Religion: Robert P Weller.

Part II: Culture/Power/Knowledge:.

5. Orientalism: Edward W Said.

6. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall.

7. Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century: Sander L Gilman.

Part III: Development as Discourse:.

8. The Problematisation of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development: Arturo Escobar.

9. The Constitution of the Object of Development - Lesotho as a Less Developed Country : James Ferguson.

10. Becoming a Development Category: Nanda Shrestha.

11. Knowledge for Development: The World Bank.

Part IV: Development Culture and Human Rights:.

12. Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau.

13. Human Rights as Cultural Practice: Ann Belinda Preis.

14. Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu: Margaret Jolly.

Part V: Global/Local:.

15. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai.

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