Round 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” that supports a “coloniality of power.” A thinker from this country argued that “gamonalism” (“ga-mo-NAHL-ism”) suppressed opposition in it in Seven Interpretive Essays on [this country’s] Reality. This country was the birthplace of Aníbal Quijano (“ah-NEE-ball kee-HA-no”) and José Mariátegui (“mah-ree-AH-teh-gee”). An economist from this country blamed unclear property rights in it for development failures in The Mystery of Capital. This is the home country of economist Hernando de Soto. For 10 points, a “collision” in what modern-day country titles a chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel about the Battle of Cajamarca ■END■
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