The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Inventing Social Categories Through Place: Social Representations and Development in Nepal
Abstract
Nepal is a predominantly rural nation: Most people live in villages and make their living as subsistence farmers. The Nepalese government, assisted by international donor agencies, administers projects directed at improving the conditions of life for these rural people. Images of villages and village life accompany the promotion of development ideals. Radio Nepal has actors playing the part of villagers in didactic skits aimed at convincing rural people that they should consult doctors for their health problems or should feed oral rehydration solution to children suffering from diarrhea. Schoolbooks contain illustrations of village scenes and talk about village life as they inform children about development programs. When development policy makers plan programs, they discuss what villagers do, how they react, and what they think. Together, these images coalesce into a typical, generic village, turning all the villages of rural Nepal into the village.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Agrawal, A. (1995) · Development and Change · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x · Cited by 2,189
Beyond NGO‐ization?: Reflections from Latin America
Alvarez, S. E. (2009) · Development · doi:10.1057/dev.2009.23 · Cited by 375
Outsourcing Social Transformation: Development NGOs as Organizations
Watkins, S. C., Swidler, A., & Hannan, T. (2012) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145516 · Cited by 285
Navigating diagnoses: understanding mind-body relations, mental health, and stigma in Nepal
Kohrt, B. A., & Harper, I. (2008) · Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s11013-008-9110-6 · Cited by 185
Development as Entangled Knot: The Case of the Slaughter Renunciation Movement in Tibet, China
(Kabzung), G. (2015) · The Journal of Asian Studies · doi:10.1017/s0021911815001175 · Cited by 25
Metadata
- Authors
- Pigg, S. L.
- Venue
- Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1992-07
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 491-513
- ISSN
- 0010-4175 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-2999
- OpenAlex
- W2122670338
- Cited by
- 679
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Inventing Social Categories Through Place: Social Representations and Development in Nepal. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1017/s0010417500017928
- The paper
- Pigg, S. L. (1992). Inventing Social Categories Through Place: Social Representations and Development in Nepal. Comparative Studies in Society and History. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500017928
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
