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LEADER: 01733cam a22003254a 4500
001 2006000661
003 DLC
005 20061003083831.0
008 060131s2006 ii b 001 0beng
010 $a 2006000661
020 $a0761934405 (hard back)
020 $a8178295865 (India-HB)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm63277540
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043 $aa------
050 00 $aH53.A78$bA38 2006
082 00 $a300.95$222
100 1 $aAlatas, Farid,$cSyed.
245 10 $aAlternative discourses in Asian social science :$bresponses to Eurocentrism /$cSyed Farid Alatas.
260 $aNew Delhi ;$aThousand Oaks :$bSage Publications,$c2006.
300 $a226 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.
505 0 $aThe central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription -- Theorizing the state of the social sciences -- The structure of academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences -- The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia -- Nativist or autonomous social science: a clash of orientations -- Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences -- Alternative discourses and power -- Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences -- The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$zAsia.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aEurocentrism.
650 0 $aOrientalism.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006000661.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006000661-d.html