Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in

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.

Dip Kapoor is Associate Professor in Theoretical, Cultural, and International Studies in Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies,University of Alberta, Canada and is Research Associate and Founding member of the Adivasi/Dalit rural people's Center for Research and Development Solidarity in South Orissa, India. His educational,research and active engagements with the Adivasi-Dalit Ekta Abhijan (ADEA) land & forest movement began in the early 1990s. Recent co/edited collections include: Education, PAR and Social Change: International Perspectives; Education, Decolonization, and Development:P erspectives from Asia, Africa, and the Americas; Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture; and Global Perspectives on Adult Education.

Edward Shizha is Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary Studies & Children’s Education at Sir Wilfred Laurier University, Canada.

List of Figures and Boxes	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Development	p. 15
Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-Ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land, and Place in India	p. 17
Indigenous Incitements	p. 35
Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-Determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand	p. 47
Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh	p. 63
Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa	p. 81
Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia	p. 97
Formal Education	p. 113
Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process	p. 115
Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal	p. 131
Learning and Communicative Mediums	p. 145
Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 147
Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production	p. 165
Voicing Our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal	p. 179
Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Learning	p. 195
Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania	p. 197
The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria	p. 213
Health Knowledge and Learning	p. 227
Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya	p. 229
"To Die is Honey, and to Live is Salt": Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutional Containment	p. 245
Notes	p. 261
List of Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture

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