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

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 Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Learning From adivasi (Original Dweller) Political-Ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land, and Place in India....Pages 17-33 Indigenous Incitements....Pages 35-46 Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-Determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/ New Zealand....Pages 47-62 Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh....Pages 63-79 Animals, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa....Pages 81-95 Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia....Pages 97-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process....Pages 115-129 Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal....Pages 131-144 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Clash of Oralities and Textualities: the Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 147-164 Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women’s Utopian Knowledge Production....Pages 165-178 Voicing Our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal....Pages 179-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Haya Women’s Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania....Pages 197-211 The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria....Pages 213-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations With Herbalists in Kenya....Pages 229-243 “To Die is Honey, and to Live is Salt”: Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment....Pages 245-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-275 Kateraina was born FireKin, a true child of power. Her once mighty clan was decimated in the last Great War. Hunted her entire life, Kateraina has struggled to control abilities she barely understands. Her fate screams at her from the nightmares that plague her, a constant reminder of the violence she fears she holds. Now, if she is to have any hope of survival, she must follow a NightWalker far into darkness and embrace shadows that lurk deep within. She must discover the truth about herself, a truth buried for for over 1300 years. Kateraina must find her hope hidden in the past, or will she face her Future of Flames.