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 and learning concerning development, formal education, communicative mediums, and 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. Contents......Page 6 List of Figures and Boxes......Page 8 1 Introduction......Page 10 I: Development......Page 24 2 Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-Ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land, and Place in India......Page 26 3 Indigenous Incitements......Page 44 4 Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-Determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand......Page 56 5 Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh......Page 72 6 Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa......Page 90 7 Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia......Page 106 II: Formal Education......Page 122 8 Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process......Page 124 9 Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal......Page 140 III: Learning and Communicative Mediums......Page 154 10 Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 156 11 Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production......Page 174 12 Voicing Our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal......Page 188 IV: Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Learning......Page 204 13 Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania......Page 206 14 The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria......Page 222 V: Health Knowledge and Learning......Page 236 15 Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya......Page 238 16 "To Die is Honey, and to Live is Salt": Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment......Page 254 Notes......Page 270 List of Contributors......Page 274 Index......Page 280 Machine generated contents note: Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on development, education and culture Dip Kapoor & Edward Shizha Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development: Claims on forests, land and place in India Dip Kapoor * Indigenous incitements Kaushik Ghosh * Against the flow: Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand Aziz Choudry * Ethnic minorities, indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods: Struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh Bijoy Barua * Animals, ghosts and ancestors: Traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa Scott Simon * Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia Ehsanul Haque * Rethinking and reconstituting indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe: A decolonization process Edward Shizha * Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal Deepa Shakya * PART III: LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUMS * Clash of oralities and textualities: The colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa Ali Abdi * Autonomy and video mediation: Dalitbahujan women's utopian knowledge production Sourayan Mookerjea * Voicing our roots: A critical review of indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy & Rayyan Hassan * PART IV: GENDER, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING * Haya women's knowledge and learning: Addressing land estrangement in Tanzania Christine Mhina * The Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria Lantana Usman * PART V: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING * Traditional healing practices: Conversations with herbalists in Kenya Njoki Wane * To die is honey, and to live is salt: Indigenous epistemologies of wellness in Northern Ghana and the threat of institutionalized containment Coleman Agyeyomah, Jonathan Langdon & Rebecca Butler. 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. 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