Indigenous Concepts: A Problem for Social and Information Science.

Riggs, Fred W.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Indigenous Concepts: A Problem for Social and Information Science.

Riggs, Fred W.

International Social Science Journal, v39 n4 p607-17 Nov 1987

States that the basic weakness of contemporary "Western-born" social science, as applied to the study of developing nations, is its ethnocentrism. Discusses the need to reinforce the indigenous character of the social sciences. Presents the INTERCOCTA Encyclopedia as a way of establishing a more indigenous social science within various societies of developing nations. (GEA)

Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developing Nations, Ethnocentrism, Higher Education, Indigenous Populations, Social Sciences

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Language: English

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