Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts

Indigenous knowledges are the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This collection of essays discusses indigenous knowledges and their implication for academic decolonization.

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto. Budd L. Hall is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto. Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto.

Foreword

vii

Dr Vandana Shiva

Preface

xi

Introduction

3

(18)

Part I. Situating Indigenous Knowledges: Definitions and Boundaries

Updating Aboriginal Traditions of Knowledge

21

(16)

Marlene Brant Castellano

Heart Knowledge, Blood Memory, and the Voice of the Land: Implications of Research among Hawaiian Elders

37

(17)

Leilani Holmes

Indigenous Knowledge: Lessons from the Elders -- A Kenyan Case Study

54

(16)

Njoki Nathani Wane

African Development: The Relevance and Implications of `Indigenousness'

70

(19)

George J. Sefa Dei

Part II: Indigenous Knowledges: Resistance and Advocacy

Oral Narratives as a Site of Resistance: Indigenous Knowledge, Colonialism, and Western Discourse

89

(13)

Elizabeth McIsaac

The Retention of Knowledge of Folkways as a Basis for Resistance

102

(18)

Patience Elabor-Idemudia

Indigenous Nations and the Human Genome Diversity Project

120

(17)

Sandra S. Awang

Toward Indigenous Wholeness: Feminist Praxis in Transformative Learning on Health and the Environment

137

(20)

Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg

Part III. Indigenous Knowledges and the Academy

Native Studies and the Academy

157

(11)

Joseph Couture

Toward an Embodied Pegagogy: Exploring Health and the Body through Chinese Medicine

168

(16)

Roxana Ng

Not So Strange Bedfellows: Indigenous Knowledge, Literature Studies, and African Development

184

(18)

Handel Kashope Wright

Breaking the Educational Silence: For Seven Generations, an Information Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

202

(13)

Budd L. Hall

Part IV. Indigenous Knowledges and Transforming Practices

Ayurveda: Mother of Indigenous Health Knowledge

215

(19)

Farah M. Shroff

Partnership in Practice: Some Reflections on the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy

234

(14)

Suzanne Dudziak

Peace Research and African Development: An Indigenous African Perspective

248

(17)

Thomas Mark Turay

Mpambo, the African Multiversity: A Philosophy to Rekindle the African Spirit

265

(14)

Paul Wangoola

Contributors

279

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