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

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "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.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    GN645 IND (Library of Congress Call Number)

    44118 (Cat ID)

    89477 (DBTextworks system ID)

    37903 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture
  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place
  • Date
    Circa 2010
  • Physical Description

    vi, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780230621015
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    1. Introduction / Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha
    2. Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development: claims on forests, land and place in India / Dip Kapoor
    3. Indigenous incitements / Kaushik Ghosh
    4. Against the flow: Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Aziz Choudry
    5. Ethnic minorities, indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods: struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh / Bijoy P. Barua
    6. Animals, ghosts and ancestors: traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa / Scott Simon
    7. Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia / Ehsanul Haque
    8. Rethinking and reconstituting indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe: a decolonization process / Edward Shizha
    9. Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal / Deepa Shakya
    10. Clash of oralities and textualities: the colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ali A. Abdi
    11. Autonomy and video mediation: Dalitbahujan womenÆs utopian knowledge production / Sourayan Mookerjea
    12. Voicing our roots: a critical review of indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal / Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy and Rayyan Hassan
    13. Haya women's knowledge and learning: addressing land estrangement in Tanzania / Christine Mhina
    14. The indigenous knowledge system of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria / Lantana M. Usman
    15. Traditional healing practices: conversations with herbalists in Kenya / Njoki N. Wane
    16. 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.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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