LEADER 06508nam 2200661 450 001 9910788136003321 005 20220328092731.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000616422 035 $a(EBL)2051159 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001526272 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11887093 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001526272 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11510434 035 $a(PQKB)10451494 035 $a(OCoLC)911594389 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2051159 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2051159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11056174 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL784638 035 $a(PPN)198668872 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000616422 100 $a20150527h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBetween rhetoric and reality $ethe state and use of Indigenous knowledge in post-colonial Africa /$fedited by Munyaradzi Mawere & Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye 210 1$aBamenda, [Cameroon] :$cLangaa Research & Publishing CIG,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-792-69-1 311 $a9956-792-83-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1 - Rethinking African Indigenous Knowledges and World Civilisations: Pasts, presents and the Futures; Introduction; Background to Africa, world civilisations, and knowledge development; A guide through the book; References; Chapter 2 - Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Management in Africa: Some showcases from Zimbabwe; Introduction; Objectives and methodological issues: A brief overview; Understanding indigenous knowledge; The use of indigenous knowledge in Zimbabwe 327 $aShowcases of indigenous knowledge for disaster risk prediction and mitigationWhy the hour hand is ticking towards modern science?; Recommendations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3 - An Evaluation of African Traditional Scientific Knowledge and Technological Devices; Introduction; The Backwardness of Traditional Africa; A brief history of Africa's backwardness; African science and technology in the pre-colonial era; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 - Indigenous Knowledge, Conflation and Post-colonial Translation: Lessons from Fieldwork in Contemporary Rural Zimbabwe; Introduction 327 $aOverview on Indigenous knowledge, animism and translationThe worlds, entities and knowledge practices related to droughts and rains; Meteorological Sciences and Connections in the Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Brief Note; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 - Traditional Healers and Medicine in South Africa: A Quest for Legal and Scientific Recognition; Introduction; Background to the use of Traditional Medicine in South Africa; Challenges to the use of Traditional Medicine in South Africa; Traditional Medicine in post-Apartheid South Africa; Critique of the Act No. 22 of 2007 327 $aThe prospects of traditional medicine and its practitioners in South AfricaConclusion; References; Chapter 6 - A History of Pre-colonial and Colonial Wildlife Conservation in Ghana; Introduction; Conservation; Wildlife Conservation in Pre-Colonial Times; Wildlife Preservation Laws and the creation of Game Reserves during the colonial era; The Appointment of a Game Warden and Establishment of a Wildlife Department; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 - 'Sheep in Sheep's Clothing or Wolves in Sheep's Clothing?' Interventions by Non-state Actors in a Changing Climatic Environment in Rural Zimbabwe 327 $aIntroductionUnderstanding Non-State Actors (NSAs); NSAs interventions in Zimbabwe's rural communities: A case of Zvishavane Rural; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 - Religion and the Restoration of Health in Africa: A Case Study of the Traditional Akan People of Ghana; Introduction; Methodology; Who are the Akan?; Medicine among the Akan; Who is a traditional medical practitioner?; The nexus between Religion and Medicine; The Akan etiology of illness; The Akan medical practitioner and the 'Germ Theory'; The prospects of indigenous/traditional medicine in Ghana today; Conclusion; References 327 $aChapter 9 - Indigenous Knowledge and the Management of Ecological Resources for Africa's Development 330 $aSince time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment period, these knowledges have been supplanted by the Western enlightenment science or colonial science hegemony and arrogance such that in many cases they were relegated to the periphery. Some Euro-centric scholars even viewed indigenous knowledge as superstitious, irrational and anti-development. This erroneous view has, since the colonial period, spread like veld fire to the extent of being internalised by some political elites and Euro-centric academics of Africa and elsewhere. However, for some time now, the potential role that indigenous peoples and their knowledge can play in addressing some of the global problems haunting humanity across the world is increasingly emerging as part of international discourse. This book presents an interesting and insightful discourse on the state and role that indigenous knowledge can play in addressing a tapestry of problems of the world and the challenges connected with the application of indigenous knowledge in enlightenment science-dominated contexts. The book is not only useful to academics and students in the fields of indigenous studies and anthropology, but also those in other fields such as environmental science, social and political ecology, development studies, policy studies, economic history, and African studies. 606 $aIndigenous peoples$zAfrica 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 615 0$aIndigenous peoples 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a960 702 $aMawere$b Munyaradzi 702 $aAwuah-Nyamekye$b Samuel 712 02$aProject Muse 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788136003321 996 $aBetween rhetoric and reality$93791330 997 $aUNINA