Decolonizing knowledge : from development to dialogue / edited by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin. - Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996. - vi, 398 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in development economics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content : Introduction: Rationality and the world -- Part 1. Decolonizing development knowledge : Development for 'big fish' or small fish'? A study of contrasts in Tanzania's fishing sector -- The economic consequences of pragmatism: A re-interpretation of kyenesian doctrine -- Two phase of American environmentalism -- Retionality, the body, and the world: From production to regeneration -- Part 2 . Decolonizing the 'transfer-of-technology' model : Farmers, seedsmen , and scientists: systems of agriculture and systems of knowledge -- Hosting the otherness of the other: The case of green revolution -- Why haldane went to india: modern genetics in quest of tradition -- Footnotes to vavilov: An essay on gene diversity -- The savage freud : The first non-western psychoanalyst and the politics of secret selves in colonial india

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Economic development.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.

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