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Development and Culture (Paperback)
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Development and Culture (Paperback)
Series: Development in Practice Reader
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Culture has been defined as the sum of all the resources, be they
material, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual, that people draw
upon to give meaning to their lives. All models of development are
essentially cultural in that they reflect perceptions of and
responses to the problems faced by human societies. Yet despite
international recognition of their inter-connectedness, represented
by the 1995 report of the World Commission on Culture and
Development, published by UNESCO, most development policies and
interventions are based on an assumption that 'modernization' in
the Western sense is the ultimate goal. Culture is therefore
regarded either as an impediment to progress, or as something to be
kept outside the economic and political spheres and consigned to
the areas of religion and ritual. This anthology, written by a
variety of aid practitioners and scholars, shows the need to go
beyond viewing culture merely as an important dimension of
development, to seeing development itself as a cultural expression,
and culture as the basis upon which societies can develop through
self-renewal and growth.
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