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

This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approachto the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa. INDICE: - Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education and Culture; D.Kapoor & E.Shizha - PART I: DEVELOPMENT - Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land and Place in India; D.Kapoor - Indigenous Incitements; K.Ghosh - Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand; A.Choudry - Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods:Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh; B.Barua - Animals, Ghosts and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa; S.Simon - Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia; E.Haque - PART II: FORMAL EDUCATION - Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process; E.Shizha - Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newarsof Nepal; D.Shakya - PART III: LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUMS - Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa; A.Abdi - Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production; S.Mookerjea - Voicing our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal; S.Sekhar Roy & R.Hassan - PART IV: GENDER, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING - Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania; C.Mhina - The Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria; L.Usman - PART V: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING - Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya; N.Wane - 'To die is honey, and to live is salt': Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment; C.Agyeyomah, J.Langdon & R.Butler

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62101-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 27/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés