Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture


edited by Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha.
Bok Engelsk 2010
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2010.
Omfang
vi, 275 sider : illustrasjoner
Opplysninger
Introduction / Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Haya women's knowledge and learning : addressing land estrangement in Tanzania / Christine Mhina -- The indigenous knowledge system (IKS) of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria / Lantana Usman -- Traditional healing practices : conversations with herbalists in Kenya / Njoki 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.. - "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.
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Afrika : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01540. - Asia : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01809
Dewey
ISBN
9780230621015. - 9781349383115

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