期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2004
期号：35
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：Ipicked up the book hoping it would offer more than thematic novelty. On reading, however, I was disappointed. To start, the book does not have a wellformulated hypothesis to prove, modify or dislodge. In fact, it does not have a precise question to engage. ‘What is the nature of the child’s construction of school knowledge’ (p. 240) in a government primary school situated in Kasimpura, a village on the northern outskirt of Delhi, is a hazily broad question. What is more, the question is not situated in relation to a body of scholarly work in the anthropology of education. Instead, it is counter-posed to common sense and popular understanding, including that of government officials (pp. 10-13). Thus theoretically, the aim of the book is not very challenging.o
