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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This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa’s rene
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A pathbreaking effort to bring together a wide diversity of views by distinguished Honduran analysts, political and mili
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