"Theatre can reveal to development workers both villagers' problems and their capacity to analyse such programs." Also: "the main obstacle to development is not ignorance or apathy but structural limits on villagers' access to resources, information and power."
In the Peruvian Amazon, western-style education destroyed local knowledge, says the author. But trained indigenous teachers are restoring confidence in traditional values.
From a conference of this title at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. Includes six views of the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication. Presenters and their topics included the following: Thomas W. Cooper, "The Amish, Old Orders, and media: a report on the conference;" Tamara L. Gillis, "When cultures clash: reporting on a sensational story within a community of faith;" Donald B. Kraybill, "Culture clash: the Amish and the media;" Ann Rodgers-Melnick, "Don't say 'cult': reporting on minority religions;" Diane Zimmerman Umble, "Collisions of culture: covering the death of an Amish child;" and Robert Rhodes, "Communal concerns about the media." Use title search or author search for full citation of each.
About a conference, The Amish, Old Orders and the Media, at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, in June 2001. One of six papers related to the culture clash between the traditional Old Orders and the modern media of mass communication.
