Research Catalog

Title

Africa-centred Knowledges : Crossing Fields and Worlds / Edited by Brfenda Cooper and Robert Morrell; forward by Crain Soudien.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey Ltd, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Cooper, Brenda.
• Morrell, Robert.

Description

xix, 211 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Knowledge, Theory of > Africa
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Philosophy, African
• Africa > Historiography
• Africa > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Epistemology -- Struggles Over Meaning-Making. 1. Validated Knowledge : Confronting Myths about Africa / Lansana Keita -- 2. Re-theorizing the Indigenous Knowledge Debate / Lesley Green -- 3. Battlefields of Knowledge : Conceptions of Gender in Development Discourse / Signe Arnfred -- 4. Knowing Time : Temporal Epistemology & the African Novel / Bill Ashcroft -- 5. Black Boxes & Glass Jars : Classification in the Hunt for Africa-centred Knowledge / Brenda Cooper -- 6. T̀his is a Robbers' System' : Popular Musicians' Readings of the Kenyan State / Mbugua Wa Mungai. pt. II. Policy & Practice -- Applying the Knowledge. 7. Science, Fishers' Knowledge & Namibia's Fishing Industry / Lesley Green -- 8. ICT for Development : Extending Computing Design Concepts / Edwin Blake -- 9. G̀ood Houses Make Good People' -- Making Knowledge about Health & Environment in Cape Town / Vanessa Watson -- 10. Men of God & Gendered Knowledge / Michael Pk Okyerefo -- 11. Retrieving the Traces of Knowledge-making while Editing a Book on Postgraduate Writing / Lucia Thesen -- 12. Hunhuism (Personhood) & Academic Success in a Zimbabwean Secondary School / Leadus Madzima.

ISBN

• 9781847010957
• 1847010954

OCLC

869775450

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library