Indigenous peoples' wisdom and power
Subtitle: affirming our knowledge through narratives
By: edited by Julian E. Kunnie and Nomalungelo I. Goduka
Contributors: Kunnie, Julian; Goduka, Nomalungelo I. 1948-
Series: Vitality of indigenous religions
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780754615972; 9780754616153
Subjects: Ethnophilosophy; Ethnoscience; Indigenous peoples -- Religion; Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs
Description: This anthology is on global indigenous people's wisdoms and ways of knowing. It covers issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender, and the suppressed voices of women, the diverse global conte.

xts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North & South America and Oceania.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Ancient Indigenous Cultures. Indigenous San knowledge and survival struggles / Kxao Moses and Oma and Axel Thoma ; Nila.Ngany : possessing/having/belonging to knowledge: indigenous knowledge systems in Yawuru Aboriginal Australia / Pat Mamanyjun Torres ; Indigenist research and Aboriginal Australia / Lester Irabbina-Rigney; title: Turtle Island: North America. The power of indigenous knowledge: naming and identity and colonization in Canada / Laara Fitznor ; Remembering our grandmothers : Navajo women and the power of oral tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale ; Exploring healing and the body through Chinese medicine / Roxanne Ng; title: South America. Indigenous Muchik wisdom at work: the tale of a Mestiza / Miryam Espinosa-Dulanpo; title: The Caribbean. Indigenous wisdom at work in Jamaica: the power of Kumina / Dianne Stewart; title: The Pacific. A celebration of Maori sacred and spiritual wisdom / Rangimarie Turuki Pere; title: Asia. Voices of resilience and resistance: the Ainu peoples of Hokkaido, Japan / Etsuko Aoki ... [et al.] ; Coming home to the earth household : indigenous communities and ecological citizenship in India / Pramod Parajuli; title: Europe. Tour in the old and new Vuornese: a Saami journey / Asa Virdi Kroik; title: Africa. African indigenous world-views and ancient wisdom: a conceptual framework for development in Southern Africa / Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura ; The nature and function of Izibongo-Panegyric legends : the case of the Xhosa people of South Africa / Somadoda Fikeni ; Human rights violation and indigenous peoples of Africa: the case of the Maasai people / Naomi Kipuri ; Indigenous African knowledge : human rights and globalization / Julian Kunnie