By Johan Pottier,Alan Bicker,Paul Sillitoe
Development and native Knowledge makes a speciality of significant demanding situations that come up within the dialogue of indigenous wisdom - its right definition and the methodologies applicable to the exploitation of neighborhood wisdom. those matters are addressed in a number of ethnographic contexts.
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