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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792124503321

Titolo

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture / / edited by D. Kapoor, E. Shizha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-91544-4

9786612915444

0-230-11181-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

001.089

Soggetti

Astronomy

Astrophysics

International education 

Comparative education

School management and organization

School administration

Education

Educational sociology

Teaching

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

International and Comparative Education

Administration, Organization and Leadership

Education, general

Sociology of Education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.