Indigenous Knowledge Of Namibia
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Author |
: Chinsembu, Kazhila C. |
Publisher |
: University of Namibia Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2016-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789991642055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9991642056 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Knowledge of Namibia by : Chinsembu, Kazhila C.
Indigenous knowledge is the dynamic information base of a society, facilitating communication and decision-making. It is the cornerstone of many modern-day innovations in science and technology. It is also a ready and valuable resource for sustainable and resilient livelihoods, and attracts increasing public interest due to its applications in bio-technology, health, bioprospecting, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food preparation, mathematics and astronomy. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF NAMIBIA is a fascinating compendium aimed at a wide readership of academics and students, government officials, policy makers, and development partners. The 17 chapters examine the indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants for treating HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and other microbial infections of humans and livestock; indigenous foods; coping and response strategies in dealing with human-wildlife conflicts, floods, gender, climate change and the management of natural resources. A new rationalisation of adolescent customary and initiation ceremonies is recommended in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and a case study of the San people of Namibia speaks to the challenges of harmonising modern education with that of indigenous people.
Author |
: Runette Kruger |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2018-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527523623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527523624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa by : Runette Kruger
This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Author |
: Margaret Kovach |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2021-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487537425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487537425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Methodologies by : Margaret Kovach
Indigenous Methodologies is a groundbreaking text. Since its original publication in 2009, it has become the most trusted guide used in the study of Indigenous methodologies and has been adopted in university courses around the world. It provides a conceptual framework for implementing Indigenous methodologies and serves as a useful entry point for those wishing to learn more broadly about Indigenous research. The second edition incorporates new literature along with substantial updates, including a thorough discussion of Indigenous theory and analysis, new chapters on community partnership and capacity building, an added focus on oracy and other forms of knowledge dissemination, and a renewed call to decolonize the academy. The second edition also includes discussion questions to enhance classroom interaction with the text. In a field that continues to grow and evolve, and as universities and researchers strive to learn and apply Indigenous-informed research, this important new edition introduces readers to the principles and practices of Indigenous methodologies.
Author |
: Tenson Muyambo |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 2022-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789956552559 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9956552550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-imagining Indigenous Knowledge and Practices in 21st Century Africa by : Tenson Muyambo
This book is on the re-imagination of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and practices in 21st century Africa. Framed from an anti-colonial perspective, the book critically interrogates epistemological erasures and injustices meted against African IKS and practices. It magnifies the different contexts where African IKS were and continue to be used effectively for collective and personal benefit. Beyond the legitimate frustration and disheartenment expressed by the contributors to this volume over the systematic colonial efforts to render inferior and delegitimate African systems of knowing and knowledge production, the book makes an important contribution to the quest to correct misconceptions and misrepresentations by Eurocentric thinkers and practitioners about African indigenous knowledges. The book makes an informed claim that the future and vibrancy of African indigenous knowledge and practices lie in how well scholars of knowledge studies and decoloniality in and on Africa are able to join hands in articulating, debating and fronting their vitality and relevance in varied real-life situations. More importantly, the book provides a re-invigorated overview and nuanced analyses of the important role and continued relevance of African IKS and practices in the understanding, interpreting and tackling of the social unfoldings of everyday life and dynamism. Without romanticising African IKS and practices, the book provides added insights and pointers on policy and trends. It is an important addition to critical debates on knowledge studies across fields.
Author |
: Harald Ginzky |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2021-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030523176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030523179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2019 by : Harald Ginzky
This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives. It addresses aspects such as the general challenges in Africa with regard to soil management; the structural deficiencies in legal, organizational and institutional terms; and specific policies at the national level, including land cover policies and persistent organic pollutants. This fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is divided into four parts, the first of which deals with several aspects of the theme “sustainable soil management in Africa.” In turn, the second part covers recent international developments, the third part presents regional and national reports (i.a. Mexico, USA and Germany), and the fourth discusses cross-cutting issues(i.a. on rural-urban interfaces). Given the range of key topics covered, the book offers an indispensible tool for all academics, legislators and policymakers working in this field. The “International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy” is a book series that discusses central questions in law and politics with regard to the protection and sustainable management of soil and land – at the international, national and regional level.
Author |
: Rachel Wynberg |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2009-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789048131235 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9048131235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing by : Rachel Wynberg
Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples’ rights, consent and benefit-sharing. It is unique as the first interdisciplinary analysis of consent and benefit sharing in which philosophers apply their minds to questions of justice in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), lawyers interrogate the use of intellectual property rights to protect traditional knowledge, environmental scientists analyse implications for national policies, anthropologists grapple with the commodification of knowledge and, uniquely, case experts from Asia, Australia and North America bring their collective expertise and experiences to bear on the San-Hoodia case.
Author |
: Bagele Chilisa |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412958820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412958822 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Research Methodologies by : Bagele Chilisa
Following the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, author Bagele Chilisa has written the first research methods textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context with case studies from around the globe to make very visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of research and the historical and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples. Chapters cover the history of research methods, colonial epistemologies, research within postcolonial societies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, language frameworks, interviewing, and building partnerships between researchers and the researched. The book comes replete with traditional textbook features such as key points, exercises, and suggested readings, which makes it ideally suited for graduate courses in research methods, especially in education, health, women's studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related social sciences.
Author |
: Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2016-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783838208947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3838208943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge by : Hebe Kuhn, Michael Vessuri
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as “indigenous” knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of “peripheral” social sciences to join the theories of the “centers”. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.
Author |
: Roué, Marie |
Publisher |
: UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2017-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789231002106 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9231002104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowing our lands and resources by : Roué, Marie
Author |
: Dennis M. Warren |
Publisher |
: Practical Action |
Total Pages |
: 608 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015035007452 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cultural Dimension of Development by : Dennis M. Warren
The potential of indigenous knowledge is being recognized for international development. This book argues that local people do know their environment, and that this knowledge has to be taken into account in planning and implementing accessible and effective development.