Technological Development for the Pakistani Village
How can the American living abroad help to alleviate the grinding poverty he sees in a way that will inject new ideas, workable ideas, into the local culture? So often our efforts are aimed either at temporary relief or are expended on institutional solutions, artificial agricultural settlements, ar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
1962
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Practical anthropology
Year: 1962, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 49-59 |
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| Summary: | How can the American living abroad help to alleviate the grinding poverty he sees in a way that will inject new ideas, workable ideas, into the local culture? So often our efforts are aimed either at temporary relief or are expended on institutional solutions, artificial agricultural settlements, artificial communities, solutions which are not open and available to all or most of the population. They are too foreign, too disrupting, too expensive. In this article Hedrick describes a few experiments which he led in Pakistan over a period of three years (which included some time for language study, survey, etc.). He worked on the assumption that ideas for technological development would be of no value unless the products could be made in a village with minimal dependence on non-indigenous materials, and no dependence on non-indigenous skills and tools. The cost would have to be within the reach of the villager. In a second article to follow, Hedrick will deal with the missionary implications of technological development. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182966200900201 |