| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 282 pages.) |
| Series |
Vitality of indigenous religions |
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Vitality of indigenous religions.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnophilosophy.
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Ethnoscience.
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Indigenous peoples -- Religion.
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Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kunnie, Julian.
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Goduka, Nomalungelo I. (Nomalungelo Ivy), 1948-
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Taylor & Francis.
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| ISBN |
9781315252414 (electronic bk.) |
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1315252414 (electronic bk.) |
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