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Understanding Development through Culture by Marco Antonio Gavério is a document available to read on EtoBox.
What is Understanding Development through Culture about?
1. The document criticizes development programs imposed by Western experts that do not consider local cultures and ways of thinking. 2. It argues that understanding other societies requires learning their languages and conceptual frameworks rather than hastily translating their concepts into Western terms. 3. Imposing Western technical solutions without understanding how they may conflict with local cultures denies their otherness and differences in thought.
- Author
- Marco Antonio Gavério
- Language
- EN