Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts,9780802042002

Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts

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ISBN13: 9780802042002
ISBN10: 0802042007
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto. Budd L. Hall is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto. Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Dr Vandana Shiva
Preface xi
Introduction 3(18)
Part I. Situating Indigenous Knowledges: Definitions and Boundaries
Updating Aboriginal Traditions of Knowledge
21(16)
Marlene Brant Castellano
Heart Knowledge, Blood Memory, and the Voice of the Land: Implications of Research among Hawaiian Elders
37(17)
Leilani Holmes
Indigenous Knowledge: Lessons from the Elders -- A Kenyan Case Study
54(16)
Njoki Nathani Wane
African Development: The Relevance and Implications of `Indigenousness'
70(19)
George J. Sefa Dei
Part II: Indigenous Knowledges: Resistance and Advocacy
Oral Narratives as a Site of Resistance: Indigenous Knowledge, Colonialism, and Western Discourse
89(13)
Elizabeth McIsaac
The Retention of Knowledge of Folkways as a Basis for Resistance
102(18)
Patience Elabor-Idemudia
Indigenous Nations and the Human Genome Diversity Project
120(17)
Sandra S. Awang
Toward Indigenous Wholeness: Feminist Praxis in Transformative Learning on Health and the Environment
137(20)
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg
Part III. Indigenous Knowledges and the Academy
Native Studies and the Academy
157(11)
Joseph Couture
Toward an Embodied Pegagogy: Exploring Health and the Body through Chinese Medicine
168(16)
Roxana Ng
Not So Strange Bedfellows: Indigenous Knowledge, Literature Studies, and African Development
184(18)
Handel Kashope Wright
Breaking the Educational Silence: For Seven Generations, an Information Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
202(13)
Budd L. Hall
Part IV. Indigenous Knowledges and Transforming Practices
Ayurveda: Mother of Indigenous Health Knowledge
215(19)
Farah M. Shroff
Partnership in Practice: Some Reflections on the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy
234(14)
Suzanne Dudziak
Peace Research and African Development: An Indigenous African Perspective
248(17)
Thomas Mark Turay
Mpambo, the African Multiversity: A Philosophy to Rekindle the African Spirit
265(14)
Paul Wangoola
Contributors 279

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