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

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Edition:1st ed.
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Other Authors:
Kapoor, Dip
Shizha, Edward
Subjects:
Ethnoscience > Africa.
Ethnoscience > Asia.
Indigenous peoples > Education > Africa.
Indigenous peoples > Education > Asia.
Format: Electronic eBook
Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa perspectives on development, education, and culture /
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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