Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos

Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos
ISBN-10
0761826505
ISBN-13
9780761826507
Category
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Pages
536
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
University Press of America
Author
William W. Stein

Description

The Vicos Project was a major effort to apply anthropology to community development in a rural community of Andean Peru in the 1950s. Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru is a retrospective examination of the Vicos research and development project through a poststructuralist lens. William Stein details the work of North American researchers, with emphasis on factors which limited their capacity to engage in development. Stein endeavors to apply the work of the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, as an aid in the interpretation of events and reactions of both North American and Peruvian researchers.

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