LEADER 04774nam 22006855 450 001 9910253317003321 005 20230810184723.0 010 $a3-319-21900-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-21900-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000498844 035 $a(EBL)4068100 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001637402 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16395543 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001637402 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14956292 035 $a(PQKB)11563193 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-21900-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4068100 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000498844 100 $a20151028d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEthnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge /$fedited by Peter Meusburger, Tim Freytag, Laura Suarsana 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aKnowledge and Space,$x2543-0580 ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-21899-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts -- 3. Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States -- 4. Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education?Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered -- 5. Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness??Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico, the United States -- 6. Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts -- 7. The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands? Perspective -- 8. Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia -- 9. Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions -- 10. Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan -- 11.?Masawa?bogeokwa si tuta!?: Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders? Gradually Lossof Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe -- 12. Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies -- 13 Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. 330 $aThis book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. It examines educational attainment of ethnic minorities, race and politics in educational systems, and the problem of losing indigenous knowledge. It comprises a broad range of case studies about specifics of local knowledge from several regions of the world, reflecting the interdependence of norms, tradition, ethnic and cultural identities, and knowledge. The contributors exploregaps between knowledge and agency, addressquestions of the social distribution of knowledge, considerits relation to communal activities, and inquire into the relation and intersection of knowledge assemblages at local, national, and global scales. The book highlights the relevance of local and indigenous knowledge and discusses implications for educational and developmental politics. It provides ideas and a cross-disciplinary scientific background for scholars, students, and professionals including NGO activists, and policy-makers. 410 0$aKnowledge and Space,$x2543-0580 ;$v8 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aScience$xStudy and teaching 606 $aGeography 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aScience Education 606 $aRegional Geography 606 $aAnthropology 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aScience$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 14$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aScience Education. 615 24$aRegional Geography. 615 24$aAnthropology. 676 $a300 702 $aMeusburger$b Peter$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aFreytag$b Tim$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSuarsana$b Laura$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253317003321 996 $aEthnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge$92532430 997 $aUNINA