Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge

This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. The first issue it develops is how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it, as it currently lacks disciplinary coherence. Secondly it addresses the idea that once this definition is achieved what methodologies should be used in such an interdisciplinary research endeavor when it must meet the demands of development (cost- and time-effective, intelligible to non-experts) while not compromising anthropological expectations.

Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Alan Bicker is a research fellow at the University of Kent. Johan Pottier is a Professor of African Anthropology and Head of Department at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.