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

Title
  1. 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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  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional authors
  1. Kapoor, Dip.
  2. Shizha, Edward.
Description
  1. vi, 275 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Ethnoscience > Africa
  2. Ethnoscience > Asia
  3. Indigenous peoples > Education > Africa
  4. Indigenous peoples > Education > Asia
  5. Ethnosciences > Afrique
  6. Ethnosciences > Asie
  7. Ethnoscience
  8. Indigenous peoples > Education
  9. Lokales Wissen
  10. Weltbild
  11. Lerntechnik
  12. Africa
  13. Asia
  14. Afrika
  15. Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain