Formation of African Local Knowledge and their Positive Practice : Area Studies Aproach

该项目所追求的对非洲当地知识的理解，始于对发展研究和认知人类学提出的对抗性观点的抽样。研究揭示了认知人类学没有涉及到的认知系统与社会相互协商的关系，以及发展领域没有涉及到的有用性与认知的关系。这项研究提出了这两个领域都忽视的知识的动态方面，并在其众多的背景下为社区发展的变化过程进行了实地考察。

The understanding of local knowledge in Africa that the project aspires begun by sampling from the confrontational views that had been presented by development studies and cognitive anthropology. The research revealed that both the relationship between the cognitive system and social mutual negotiation that cognitive anthropology did not refer to, and the relationship between usefulness and cognition that was not dealt in the field of development. The research presented the dynamic aspects of knowledge that both fields have overlooked, and conducted fieldwork on the changing processes in its multitudinous context for the development of communities.