In search of living knowledge /

Marja-Liisa Swantz has spent a lifetime conducting participatory action research in Tanzania, and In Search of Living Knowledge encapsulates her reactions. She started her career in 1952 in Tanganyika as an instructor to the first generation of women teachers at Ashira Teacher's Training Colleg...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Swantz, Marja-Liisa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, [2016]
Ã2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Anthropology and knowledge production
  • 3. Paths to participation in development research
  • 4. On whose culture is development built?
  • 5. Women's ways of sustaining life
  • 6. Between the "traditional" and the "modern"
  • 7. First steps in participatory research
  • 8. Jipemoyo : development and culture
  • 9. Participatory research in support of public health training
  • 10. Knowledge production for development
  • Conclusion.