Indigenous knowledges in global contexts : multiple readings of our world / edited by George J. Sefa Dei, Budd L. Hall, and Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Budd L.

Rosenberg, Dorothy Goldin.

Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoscience.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : OISE/UT book published in association with University of Toronto Press, [2000]

Contents:

Updating Aboriginal traditions of knowledge / Marlene Brant Castellano

Heart 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802042007

0802080596

OCLC:

43574134