Dominating knowledge : development, culture, and resistance / edited by Fr�ed�erique Apffel Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin. - New York : Clarendon Press ; - x, 293 pages. ; 25 cm. - Studies in development economics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards the decolonization of the mind / Stephen A. Marglin -- Development and the politics of knowledge / Tariq Banuri -- Modernization and its discontents / Tariq Banuri -- Smallpox in two systems of knowledge / Fr�ed�erique Apffel Marglin -- Modern medicine and its non-modern critics / Ashis Nandy and Shiv Visvanathan -- Technology and the reproduction of values in rural western India / Arjun Appadurai -- Losing touch : the cultural conditions of worker accommodation and resistance / Stephen A. Marglin.

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Economic development.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--Developing countries.


Developing countries--Economic policy.

South Asian culture Sociopolitical aspects.

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