Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture

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 & learning concerning: development, formal education, communicative mediums, 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.

Table of Contents:
Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education and Culture; D.Kapoor & E.Shizha PART I: DEVELOPMENT Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land and Place in India; D.Kapoor Indigenous Incitements; K.Ghosh Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand; A.Choudry Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh; B.Barua Animals, Ghosts and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa; S.Simon Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia; E.Haque PART II: FORMAL EDUCATION Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process; E.Shizha Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal; D.Shakya PART III: LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUMS Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa; A.Abdi Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production; S.Mookerjea Voicing our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal; S.Sekhar Roy & R.Hassan PART IV: GENDER, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania; C.Mhina The Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria; L.Usman PART V: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya; N.Wane 'To die is honey, and to live is salt': Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment; C.Agyeyomah, J.Langdon & R.Butler

About the Author :
DIP KAPOOR is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. EDWARD SHIZHA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary Studies and Children's Education at Sir Wilfred Laurier University, Canada.