Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts
Multiple Readings of Our Worlds
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2000
- Category
- General, Multicultural Education, Minority Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802080592
- Publish Date
- Sep 2000
- List Price
- $49.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802042002
- Publish Date
- Sep 2000
- List Price
- $113.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442676152
- Publish Date
- Sep 2000
- List Price
- $114.00
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Description
Indigenous knowledges are understood as the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This definition refers to the epistemic saliency of cultural traditions, values, belief systems and world views that, in any indigenous society, are imparted to the younger generation by community elders. It is also refers to world views that are products of a profoundly direct experience of nature and its relationship with the social world.
Bringing new and complex readings to the term 'indigenous', this collection of essays from Canadian and international contributors is an invitation to critically engage in the discussion of indigenous knowledges and their implication for academic decolonization. The essays are divided into four sections: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: Definitions and Boundaries; Indigenous Knowledge: Resistance and Advocacy; Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy; and Indigenous Knowledge and Transforming Practices. Collectively the essays situate indigenous knowledges in relation to conventional knowledges, validate the existence of multiple sources of knowledge, and examine the varying strategies, projects, and theories that are currently being developed in support of indigenous knowledges.
The book draws attention to some of the nuances, contradictions, and contestations in affirming the place of indigenous knowledges in the academy, while maintaining that different bodies of knowledges continually influence each other to reveal the dynamism of all knowledge systems.
About the authors
George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
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Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, OISE/UT.
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Budd L. Hall is co-chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education and a professor of community development in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria.
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