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Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge

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Editors:
  1. Peter Meusburger

    1. Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Tim Freytag

    1. Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  3. Laura Suarsana

    1. Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Offers a unique perspective on the cultural and ethnical dimensions of knowledge generation from an interdisciplinary perspective
  • Delivers intensive theoretical discussions about the concepts of indigenous knowledge and local knowledge
  • Is the first to pay a great deal of attention to African and Asian cultures
  • Makes a unique contribution to cultural aspects of generating and diffusing knowledge

Part of the book series: Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge and Education: An Introduction

    • Peter Meusburger, Tim Freytag, Laura Suarsana
    Pages 1-22

  3. The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts

    • Peter Meusburger
    Pages 23-53

  4. Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States

    • Adam Fairclough
    Pages 55-68

  5. Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education: Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered

    • Werner Gamerith
    Pages 69-92

  6. Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness? Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico

    • Tim Freytag
    Pages 93-108

  7. Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts

    • George J. Sefa Dei
    Pages 109-128

  8. The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective

    • Paul Sillitoe
    Pages 129-163

  9. Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia

    • Christoph Antweiler
    Pages 165-190

  10. Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions

    • Marcus Nüsser, Ravi Baghel
    Pages 191-209

  11. Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan

    • Diana K. Davis
    Pages 211-228

  12. “Masawa—bogeokwa si tuta!”: Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders’ Gradual Loss of Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe

    • Gunter Senft
    Pages 229-256

  13. Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies

    • Ikechi Mgbeoji
    Pages 257-273

  14. Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • William T. S. Gould
    Pages 275-292

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 293-304
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This book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. It examines educational attainment of ethnic minorities, race and politics in educational systems, and the problem of losing indigenous knowledge. It comprises a broad range of case studies about specifics of local knowledge from several regions of the world, reflecting the interdependence of norms, tradition, ethnic and cultural identities, and knowledge. The contributors explore gaps between knowledge and agency, address questions of the social distribution of knowledge, consider its relation to communal activities, and inquire into the relation and intersection of knowledge assemblages at local, national, and global scales. The book highlights the relevance of local and indigenous knowledge and discusses implications for educational and developmental politics. It provides ideas and a cross-disciplinary scientific background for scholars, students, and professionals including NGO activists, and policy-makers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Peter Meusburger, Laura Suarsana

  • Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Tim Freytag

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