Cultural Perspectives on Development: The Relevance of Sociology and Anthropology

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Meynaud J. (editor), Social Change and Economic Development (Leiden: Sijthoff/UNESCO, 1963).

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For a related concept of folk knowledge see Chapter 4 in Boulding's K. Human Betterment (Beverly Hills and New Delhi: Sage Publication, 1985).

For a full discussion of the concept of bioregionalism see Sale's Kirkpatrick Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985).

Meadows D.H. Robinson J.M. , The Electronic Oracle: Computer Models and Social Decisions (New York and Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, 1985).

The first studies of local perception and conflict between local and exogenous development agents over issues of innovation in the context of the Development Decade initiatives are found in Meynaud, op cit, note 2. More recent accounts of the same processes are found in Green E.C. , Practising Development Anthropology (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986).

Studies that emphasize folk knowledge include Rhoads R.E. , “Breaking New Ground: Agricultural Anthropology,” E.C. Green, ibid, pp. 22–66; S. Fujisaka, “Anthropology in Upland and Rainfed Development in the Philippines,” E.C. Green, ibid, pp. 160–184; and the Household Gardens issue of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, published by the United Nations University, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 1985.

Little P. Horowitz M. (editors), Lands at Risk (Binghampton: Institute for Development Anthropology, in press).

For challenging new approaches to fertility decisions see Schultz T.P. , Economic Demography and Development: New Directions in an Old Field, Center, Discussion Paper No. 516 (Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1986).

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Gilbert White after surveying the scientific and technical knowledge available to control environmental damage associated with developmental processes concludes that the principle barriers to the application of this knowledge are social capacity and will—another way of stating the importance of sociological variables, G. White, “Greenhouse Gases, Nile Snails and Human Choice,” edited by Richard Fesser, for the Distinguished Lecture Series on Behavioral Science, University of Colorado (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1987).

Boserup E. , Woman's Role in Economic Development (New York: St Martin's Press, 1970); E. Boulding, Women in the Twentieth Century World (New York: Halsted Press, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publication, 1977), Chapter 5; and R. Dauber, and M. Cain, Women and Technological Change in Developing Countries (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981).

Op cit, note 12.

Polak F. (trans and abr E. Boulding), The Image of the Future (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Elsevier, 1972).

For a detailed guide on how to use INGOs for global problemsolving see Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, prepared by the Union of International Associations in Brussels, 1986.