Development and culture : selected essays from Development in practice
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Development and culture : selected essays from Development in practice
（A development in practice reader / series editor, Deborah Eade）
Oxfam GB in association with World Faiths Development Dialogue, 2002
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Reprinted from: Development in practice
Includes bibliographical references and index
Resources: p. 177-191
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Description
Most development policies and interventions are based on an assumption that 'modernisation' in the Western sense is the ultimate goal of human societies. Culture is therefore regarded either as an impediment to progress or as something outside the economic and political spheres and consigned to areas of religion and ritual. This collection of papers, published in association with World Faiths Development Dialogue and written by a range of aid practitioners and scholars, shows the need not merely to view culture as an important dimension of development but to see development itself as a cultural expression and culture as the basis upon which societies can develop through self-renewal and growth.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Cultures, spirituality, and development 1
- Culture, liberation, and 'development' 25
- Globalism and nationalism: which one is bad? 38
- Faith and economics in 'development': a bridge across the chasm? 45
- Spirituality: a development taboo 60
- Communal conflict, NGOs, and the power of religious symbols 78
- Ethnicity and participatory development methods in Botswana: some participants are to be seen and not heard 92
- Women, resistance, and development: a case study from Dangs, India 110
- Gendering the millennium: globalising women 130
- Stressed, depressed, or bewitched? A perspective on mental health, culture, and religion 142
- Responding to mental distress in the Third World: cultural imperialism or the struggle for synthesis? 155
- Research into local culture: implications for participatory development 168
- Some thoughts on gender and culture 174
- Resources 177
- Index 194
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