Based on the research and relationships of primarily diasporic and indigenous authors, this interdisciplinary collection on indigenous knowledge and learning is a rare attempt at bringing together indigenous perspectives on development, education and culture and related indigenist-critiques of compulsory modernization, neoliberalism and colonialism from the Asia/Pacific and African contexts of indigeneity. Organized in relation to perspectives on knowledge and learning concerning development, formal education, communicative mediums, and gender and health, this collection foregrounds the rich insights and contributions of indigeneity from India, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.
Author(s): Dip Kapoor, Edward Shizha
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 284
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Boxes......Page 8
1 Introduction......Page 10
I: Development......Page 24
2 Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-Ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land, and Place in India......Page 26
3 Indigenous Incitements......Page 44
4 Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-Determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand......Page 56
5 Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh......Page 72
6 Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa......Page 90
7 Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia......Page 106
II: Formal Education......Page 122
8 Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process......Page 124
9 Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal......Page 140
III: Learning and Communicative Mediums......Page 154
10 Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 156
11 Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production......Page 174
12 Voicing Our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal......Page 188
IV: Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Learning......Page 204
13 Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania......Page 206
14 The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria......Page 222
V: Health Knowledge and Learning......Page 236
15 Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya......Page 238
16 "To Die is Honey, and to Live is Salt": Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment......Page 254
Notes......Page 270
List of Contributors......Page 274
Index......Page 280
