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From essay on rural terminologies for measurement:
“The contrast between measurement as opinion and measurement as
knowledge is not simply a surface characteristic of rural discourse, but I
think characterizes an important set of implicit epistemological assump-
tions about the limits on the knowability of certain phenomena”

From essay on rural terminologies for measurement:
“The contrast between measurement as opinion and measurement as
knowledge is not simply a surface characteristic of rural discourse, but I
think characterizes an important set of implicit epistemological assump-
tions about the limits on the knowability of certain phenomena”

Oh this book is such a cool project. Right when I was looking for Appadurai’s older and forgotten agriculture ethnographies, I came across this book that was collated basically just last year with a contemporary introduction. Divine intervention fr

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Brilliant use of ‘subjectivity’ in oral history to bring out contested nature of development process in ch3

note to self: I really need to read more about policy. The devil is in details

Nice chapter on flow of economy and blood