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Indigenous peoples' wisdom and power : affirming our knowledge through narratives / edited by Julian E. Kunnie and Nomalungelo I. Goduka.

Kunnie, Julian. (Added Author). Goduka, Nomalungelo I. (Nomalungelo Ivy), 1948- (Added Author).

Summary:

This anthology is on global indigenous people's wisdoms and ways of knowing. It covers issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender, and the suppressed voices of women, the diverse global conte.

xts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North & South America and Oceania.

Record details

ISBN: 0754615979 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780754615972 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0754616150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780754616153 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxviii, 282 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- Synopsis -- Ancient indigenous cultures -- 1. Indigenous San knowledge and survival struggles / Kxao Moses and Oma and Axel Thoma -- 2. Nila.Ngany : Possessing/having/belonging to knowledge : indigenous knowledge systems in Yawuru Aboriginal Australia / Pat Mamanyjun Torres -- 3. Indigenist research and Aboriginal Australia / Lester Irabbina-Rigney -- Turtle Island: North America -- 4. The power of indigenous knowledge: naming and identity and colonization in Canada / Laara Fitznor -- 5. Remembering our grandmothers : Navajo women and the power of oral tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- 6. Exploring healing and the body through Chinese medicine / Roxanne Ng -- South America -- 7. Indigenous Muchik wisdom at work : the tale of a Mestiza / Miryam Espinosa-Dulanpo -- The Caribbean -- 8. Indigenous wisdom at work in Jamaica : the power of Kumina / Dianne Stewart -- The Pacific -- 9. A celebration of Maori sacred and spiritual wisdom / Rangimarie Turuki Pere -- Asia -- 10. Voices of resilience and resistance: the Ainu peoples of Hokkaido, Japan / Etsuko Aoki, Kiyoko Kitahara, Kayano Shigeru and Koichi Kaizawa -- 11. Coming home to the earth household : indigenous communities and ecological citizenship in India / Pramod Parajuli --

Europe -- 12. Tour in the old and new Vuornese : a Saami journey / Asa Virdi Kroik -- Africa -- 13. African indigenous world-views and ancient wisdom : a conceptual framework for development in Southern Africa / Vimbai Gukwe Chivaura -- 14. The nature and function of Izibongo-Panegyric legends : the case of the Xhosa people of South Africa / Somadoda Fikeni -- 15. Human rights violation and indigenous peoples of Africa : the case of the Maasai people / Naomi Kipuri -- 16. Indigenous African knowledge : human rights and globalization / Julian Kunnie -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.