The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a ser
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Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthrop
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Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropolog
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Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its c
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Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been adde
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The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cul
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This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa’s rene
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Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists wor
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This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from
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