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This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education and Culture; D.Kapoor & E.Shizha PART I: DEVELOPMENT Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) Political-ecological Expositions of Development: Claims on Forests, Land and Place in India; D.Kapoor Indigenous Incitements; K.Ghosh Against the Flow: Maori Knowledge and Self-determination Struggles Confront Neoliberal Globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand; A.Choudry Ethnic Minorities, Indigenous Knowledge, and Livelihoods: Struggle for Survival in Southeastern Bangladesh; B.Barua Animals, Ghosts and Ancestors: Traditional Knowledge of Truku Hunters on Formosa; S.Simon Development Enterprises and Encounters with the Dayak and Moi Communities in Indonesia; E.Haque PART II: FORMAL EDUCATION Rethinking and Reconstituting Indigenous Knowledge and Voices in the Academy in Zimbabwe: A Decolonization Process; E.Shizha Education, Economic and Cultural Modernization, and the Newars of Nepal; D.Shakya PART III: LEARNING AND COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUMS Clash of Oralities and Textualities: The Colonization of the Communicative Space in Sub-Saharan Africa; A.Abdi Autonomy and Video Mediation: Dalitbahujan Women's Utopian Knowledge Production; S.Mookerjea Voicing our Roots: A Critical Review of Indigenous Media and Knowledge in Bengal; S.Sekhar Roy & R.Hassan PART IV: GENDER, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING Haya Women's Knowledge and Learning: Addressing Land Estrangement in Tanzania; C.Mhina The Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria; L.Usman PART V: HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING Traditional Healing Practices: Conversations with Herbalists in Kenya; N.Wane 'To die is honey, and to live is salt': Indigenous Epistemologies of Wellness in Northern Ghana and the Threat of Institutionalized Containment; C.Agyeyomah, J.Langdon & R.Butler