ISBN:
1442676159
,
9781442676152
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 282 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Indigenous knowledges in global contexts
DDC:
306.4/2
Keywords:
Ethnophilosophy
;
Ethnoscience
;
Knowledge
;
Medicine, Traditional
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Colonialism
;
Health Services, Indigenous
;
Anthropology, Cultural
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indianer
;
Naturvolk
;
Ethnotheorie
;
Kulturerbe
;
Traditionspflege
;
Wissen
;
Tradition
Abstract:
Indigenous knowledges are the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This collection of essays discusses indigenous knowledges and their implication for academic decolonization
Description / Table of Contents:
Updating Aboriginal traditions of knowledge / Marlene Brant CastellanoHeart knowledge, blood memory, and the voice of the land: implications of research among Hawaiian elders / Leilani Holmes -- Indigenous knowledge : lessons from the elders- a Kenyan case study / Njoki Nathani Wane -- African development : the relevance and implications of 'indigenousness' / George J. Sefa Dei -- Oral Narratives as a site of resistance : indigenous knowledge, colonialism, and western discourse / Elizabeth McIsaac -- The retention of knowledge of folkways as a basis for resistance / Patience Elabor-Idemudia -- Indigenous nations and the human genome diversity project / Sandra S. Awang -- Toward indigenous wholeness : feminist praxis in transformative learning on health and the environment / Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg -- Native studies and the academy / Joseph Couture -- Toward an embodied pedagogy : exploring health and the body through Chinese medicine / Roxana Ng -- Not so strange bedfellows : indigenous knowledge, literature studies, and African development / Handel Kashope Wright -- Breaking the educational silence : For Seven Generations, an information legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples / Budd L. Hall -- Ayurveda : mother of indigenous health knowledge / Farah M. Shroff -- Partnership in practice : some reflections on the Aboriginal healing and wellness strategy / Suzanne Dudziak -- Peace research and African development : an indigenous African perspective / Thomas Mark Turay -- Mpambo, the African multiversity: a philosophy to rekindle the African spirit / Paul Wangoola.
Note:
"An @OISE/UT book
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Includes bibliographical references
