Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-Ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Deconstructing Development Discourse in Peru: A Meta-Ethnography of the Modernity Project at Vicos
By (Author) William W. Stein
University Press of America
University Press of America
10th November 2003
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social groups, communities and identities
307.140985
Physical Properties
Paperback
538
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 35mm
758g
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 that 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.
Author Bio
William W. Stein is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech University.
