The Development of Indigenous Knowledge

A revolution is occurring in the pursuit of ethnography as the development world changes its focus from topdown intervention to a grassroots participatory perspec-The Development tive. The time has come for anthropology, with growing demands for its skills and insights in development, to of Indigenous consolidate its place, fostering the potential of the new relationship and building on its maligned applied tradition (Haile 1996, Rew 1992). The focus of the revolution Knowledge is the appearance, within the broad context of the recent participatory approach to development (Chambers,