Packet 4: Tossup 11

Everett Rogers opens Diffusion of Innovations by discussing a health worker in this country who was not “client-oriented” enough to persuade villagers to boil drinking water. A thinker from this country called the primacy of Eurocentric thought a “coloniality of knowledge” (10[1])that supports (-5[1])a “coloniality of power.” A thinker from this country argued that “gamonalism” (“ga-mo-NAHL-ism”) suppressed opposition in it in (10[1])Seven Interpretive Essays on [this country’s] Reality. (10[1])This country was the birthplace of Aníbal Quijano (10[1])(“ah-NEE-ball kee-HA-no”) and José Mariátegui (10[1]-5[1])(“mah-ree-AH-teh-gee”). An economist from this country blamed unclear property rights in it for development failures in The Mystery of Capital. (10[2])This is the home country of economist (-5[1])Hernando (-5[1])de Soto. (-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])a “collision” in what modern-day country titles a chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel (-5[2])about the Battle of Cajamarca (10[1])■END■ (10[9]0[3])

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