Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Dip Kapoor, Edward Shizha

      Pages 1-13

3. Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Learning From adivasi (Original Dweller) Political-Ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land, and Place in India

      • Dip Kapoor

      Pages 17-33

   3. Indigenous Incitements

      • Kaushik Ghosh

      Pages 35-46

   4. Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-Determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/ New Zealand

      • Aziz Choudry

      Pages 47-62

   5. Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh

      • Bijoy P. Barua

      Pages 63-79

   6. Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa

      • Scott Simon

      Pages 81-95

   7. Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia

      • Ehsanul Haque

      Pages 97-112

4. Formal Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process

      • Edward Shizha

      Pages 115-129

   3. Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal

      • Deepa Shakya

      Pages 131-144

5. Learning and Communicative Methums

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Clash of Oralities and Textualities: the Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Ali A. Abdi

      Pages 147-164

   3. Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women’s Utopian Knowledge Production

      • Sourayan Mookerjea

      Pages 165-178

   4. Voicing Our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal

      • Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy, Rayyan Hassan

      Pages 179-193

6. Gender, Inthgenous Knowledge, and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Haya Women’s Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania

      • Christine Mhina

      Pages 197-211

   3. The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria

      • Lantana M. Usman

      Pages 213-225

7. Health Knowledge and Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.

• education
• health
• learning
• research

"With a sterling cast of contributors and insightful studies of indigenous knowledge and learning, Kapoor and Shizha have assembled a volume of careful and outstanding studies. Their collection will be of use to all scholars and decision makers interested in how indigenous knowledge works." - Arun Agrawal, Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan

"A profoundly illuminating and scholarly discourse on indigenous knowledge systems in an Afro-Asian and interdisciplinary context. Kapoor and Shizha have initiated a new era of cross-regional research in a text that should be of interest to development planners, historians, social scientists, and educators." - Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University

Dip Kapoor is an associate professor, International Education, in Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta

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