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.
Edited by:
D. Kapoor,
E. Shizha
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780230621015
ISBN 10: 0230621015
Pages: 275
Publication Date: 18 October 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 Newars of 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
Dip Kapoor is an associate professor, International Education, in Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta
Reviews for Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture
<p>“With a sterling cast of contributors and insightful studies of indigenous knowledge and learning, Kapoor and Shizha have assembled a volume of careful and outstanding studies. Their collection will be of use to all scholars and decision makers interested in how indigenous knowledge works.”--Arun Agrawal, Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan<p>“A profoundly illuminating and scholarly discourse on indigenous knowledge systems in an Afro-Asian and interdisciplinary context. Kapoor and Shizha have initiated a new era of cross-regional research in a text that should be of interest to development planners, historians, social scientists, and educators.”--Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University