Interface of Cultural Identity and Development-Baidyanath Saraswati-DKPD-9788124600542
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From the post-World
War II decolonization to about mid-1980s, mainstream development thinking has
focussed on ‘economics’, on the one-dimensional abstraction of homo
economicus, to the exclusion of all else: specially the socio-cultural
context in which development might take place. This divorce of ‘development’
from ‘culture’, however, was “poor economics” — a hard fact, which the
international community has come to discover gradually, experientially. The
United Nations too was not found wanting in its shared concern for culture.
On 21 January 1988, it launched — under the aegis of Unesco — “The World
Decade for Cultural Development” in its effort to chiefly (a) strengthen
awareness of cultural dimension of development, and (b) enrich cultural
identities the world over. In the Indian capital, the Indira Gandhi National
Centrel for the Arts (IGNCA) has initiated a multidisciplinary discourse on
development issues vis-a-vis the whole range of cultural variables and
definitions. Which its newly-introduced series : Culture and Development
proposes to cover in entirety. This inaugural volume, thematically focussing
on “Interface of Cultural Identity and Development”, comprises 23
presentations of a Unesco-sponsored meeting of experts: 19-23 April 1993 at
IGNCA, New Delhi. Highlighting the basic distinctions that exist between
anthropocentric and cosmocentric approaches to the question of cultural
identity and development, the authors reflect on what constitutes culture and
development not per se, but as an integral holistic notion of culture and
lifestyle, culture and development, culture and region, culture and
linguistic/ecological identities, and how some of the viable alternative
development paradigms could be evolved from the convergence of mystical
ancient insights and modern science. Authored by eminent anthropologists,
sociologists, scientists and other area-specialists from Australia,
Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and
Turkey, the papers here not only consider diverse theoretical issues of
cultural identity and development, but also set out case studies in different
field situations. |
Book |
ISBN |
9788124600542
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PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
Binding |
Hardcover
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Language |
ENGLISH |
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Interface of Cultural Identity and Development-Baidyanath Saraswati-DKPD-9788124600542