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Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture / edited by Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha.

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Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture / edited by Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Kapoor, Dip.
  • Shizha, Edward.
Description
vi, 275 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of Indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Ethnoscience > Africa
  • Ethnoscience > Asia
  • Indigenous peoples > Education > Africa
  • Indigenous peoples > Education > Asia
  • Ethnosciences > Afrique
  • Ethnosciences > Asie
  • Ethnoscience
  • Indigenous peoples > Education
  • Lokales Wissen
  • Weltbild
  • Lerntechnik
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Afrika
  • Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha -- I: Development. Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development : claims on forests, land and place in India / Dip Kapoor ; Indigenous incitements / Kaushik Ghosh ; Against the flow : Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Aziz Choudry ; Ethnic minorities, Indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods : struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh / Bijoy P. Barua ; Animals, ghosts and ancestors : traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa / Scott Simon ; Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia / Ehsanul Haque -- II: Formal education. Rethinking and reconstituting Indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe : a decolonization process / Edward Shizha ; Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal / Deepa Shakya -- III: Learning and communicative mediums. Clash of oralities and textualities : the colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ali Abdi ; Autonomy and video mediation : Dalitbahujan women's utopian knowledge production / Sourayan Mookerjea ; Voicing our roots : a critical review of Indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal / Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy and Rayyan Hassan -- IV: Gender, Indigenous knowledge, and learning. Haya women's knowledge and learning : addressing land estrangement in Tanzania / Christine Mhina ; The Indigenous knowledge system of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria / Lantana M. Usman -- V: Health knowledge and learning. Traditional healing practices : conversations with herbalists in Kenya / Njoki N. Wane ; "To die is honey, and to live is salt" : Indigenous epistemologies of wellness in Northern Ghana and the threat of institutionalized containment / Coleman Agyeyomah, Jonathan Langdon, and Rebecca Butler.
ISBN
  • 9780230621015
  • 0230621015
LCCN
2009053914
OCLC
  • 475447296
  • SCSB-11532543
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library