Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa
Subtitle: perspectives on development, education, and culture
By: edited by Dip Kapoor, Edward Shizha.
Contributors: Kapoor, Dip.; Shizha, Edward.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230621015
Subjects: Ethnoscience -- Africa; Ethnoscience -- Asia; Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Africa; Indigenous peoples -- Education -- Asia
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on development, education and culture; title: Dip Kapoor & Edward Shizha; title: Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development: Claims on forests, land and place in India; title: Dip Kapoor * Indigenous incitements; title: Kaushik Ghosh * Against the flow: Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand; title: Aziz Choudry * Ethnic minorities, indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods: Struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh; title: Bijoy Barua * Animals, ghosts and ancestors: Traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa; title: Scott Simon * Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia; title: Ehsanul Haque * Rethinking and reconstituting indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe: A decolonization process; title: Edward Shizha * Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal; title: Deepa Shakya * PART III: LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUMS * Clash of oralities and textualities: The colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa; title: Ali Abdi * Autonomy and video mediation: Dalitbahujan women's utopian knowledge production; title: Sourayan Mookerjea * Voicing our roots: A critical review of indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal; title: Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy & Rayyan Hassan * PART IV: GENDER, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING * Haya women's knowledge and learning: Addressing land estrangement in Tanzania; title: Christine Mhina * The Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria; title: Lantana Usman * PART V: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING * Traditional healing practices: Conversations with herbalists in Kenya; title: Njoki Wane * To die is honey, and to live is salt: Indigenous epistemologies of wellness in Northern Ghana and the threat of institutionalized containment; title: Coleman Agyeyomah, Jonathan Langdon & Rebecca Butler.