Indigenous African Knowledge Production : Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women / Njoki Nathani-Wane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathani-Wane, Njoki, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Embu (African people)--Social life and customs.

Embu (African people).

Embu (African people)--History.

Embu (African people)--Science.

Embu (African people)--Folklore.

Women--Kenya--Embu District--Social life and customs.

Women.

Food industry and trade--Kenya--Embu District.

Food industry and trade.

Embu District (Kenya)--Social life and customs.

Embu District (Kenya).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

TAmong the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices - preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving - as an entry point into the indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it.Using personal narratives collected during several years of field research in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu women use proverbs, fables, and folktales to preserve and communicate their world-view, knowledge, and cultural norms. She shows how this process preserves Indigenous knowledge devalued by the colonial and post-colonial educational systems, as well as the gendered dimension of the transmission process.Wane's book will be useful not just to those studying development and education in Africa, but also to all those interested in questions of how to preserve and recover local cultural knowledge.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Food Processing: Embu Women and Indigenous Knowledges

2. Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Socio-political Economy

3. The Everyday Experiences of Embu Women

4. Food Preservation and Change

5. Gender Relations, Decision Making, and Food Preferences

6. Indigenous Technology and the Influence of New Innovations

7. Removing the Margins: Including Indigenous Women's Voices in Knowledge Production

8. Contesting Knowledge: Some Concluding Thoughts

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-7004-5

1-4426-7003-7

OCLC:

881552395