Indigenous Knowledge Of Namibia
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Indigenous Knowledge Of Namibia
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Author : Chinsembu, Kazhila C.
language : en
Publisher: University of Namibia Press
Release Date : 2016-01-29
Indigenous Knowledge Of Namibia written by Chinsembu, Kazhila C. and has been published by University of Namibia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-29 with Social Science categories.
Indigenous knowledge is the dynamic information base of a society, facilitating communication and decision-making. It is the cornerstone of many modern-day innovations in science and technology. It is also a ready and valuable resource for sustainable and resilient livelihoods, and attracts increasing public interest due to its applications in bio-technology, health, bioprospecting, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food preparation, mathematics and astronomy. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF NAMIBIA is a fascinating compendium aimed at a wide readership of academics and students, government officials, policy makers, and development partners. The 17 chapters examine the indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants for treating HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and other microbial infections of humans and livestock; indigenous foods; coping and response strategies in dealing with human-wildlife conflicts, floods, gender, climate change and the management of natural resources. A new rationalisation of adolescent customary and initiation ceremonies is recommended in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and a case study of the San people of Namibia speaks to the challenges of harmonising modern education with that of indigenous people.
The Arts And Indigenous Knowledge Systems In A Modernized Africa
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Author : Runette Kruger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-17
The Arts And Indigenous Knowledge Systems In A Modernized Africa written by Runette Kruger and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Social Science categories.
This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.
Understanding Namibia
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Author : Henning Melber
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Understanding Namibia written by Henning Melber and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
he book offers a frank account of an African state that shook off colonial rule but has yet to see the fruits of independence distributed evenly among its people. Drawing on inside knowledge of SWAPO, the anti-colonial liberation movement, the author provides a valuable case study of nation building in the modern era.
Indigenous Peoples Consent And Benefit Sharing
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Author : Rachel Wynberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-15
Indigenous Peoples Consent And Benefit Sharing written by Rachel Wynberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-15 with Law categories.
Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples’ rights, consent and benefit-sharing. It is unique as the first interdisciplinary analysis of consent and benefit sharing in which philosophers apply their minds to questions of justice in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), lawyers interrogate the use of intellectual property rights to protect traditional knowledge, environmental scientists analyse implications for national policies, anthropologists grapple with the commodification of knowledge and, uniquely, case experts from Asia, Australia and North America bring their collective expertise and experiences to bear on the San-Hoodia case.
Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge
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Author : Tania Bubela
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge written by Tania Bubela and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Science categories.
This fascinating study describes efforts to define and protect traditional knowledge and the associated issues of access to genetic resources, from the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Nagoya Protocol. Drawing on the expertise of local specialists from around the globe, the chapters judiciously mix theory and empirical evidence to provide a deep and convincing understanding of traditional knowledge, innovation, access to genetic resources, and benefit sharing. Because traditional knowledge was understood in early negotiations to be subject to a property rights framework, these often became bogged down due to differing views on the rights involved. New models, developed around the notion of distributive justice and self-determination, are now gaining favor. This book suggests – through a discussion of theory and contemporary case studies from Brazil, India, Kenya and Canada – that a focus on distributive justice best advances the interests of indigenous peoples while also fostering scientific innovation in both developed and developing countries. Comprehensive as well as nuanced, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge will be of great interest to scholars and students of law, political science, anthropology and geography. National and international policymakers and those interested in the environment, indigenous peoples' rights and innovation will find the book an enlightening resource.
Revaluation And Preservation Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In Modern Society
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Author : Tlou Masenya
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2025
Revaluation And Preservation Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems In Modern Society written by Tlou Masenya and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with Cultural property categories.
"The overall objective of this book is to present scholarly perspectives, ideas and recommendations in addition to publishing excellent articles that explore the role and importance of indigenous knowledge in the modern society"--
Remapping Africa In The Global Space
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Author : Edward Shizha
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2014
Remapping Africa In The Global Space written by Edward Shizha and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Africa categories.
What are the benefits and risks for Africa's participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Spaceis a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa's image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa's reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa's internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both 'outsider' and 'insider' perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide 'standard' paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa's current misperceptions and myths about the African 'crisis' and 'failure'status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa.
Flocking Together An Indigenous Psychology Theory Of Resilience In Southern Africa
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Author : Liesel Ebersöhn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-03
Flocking Together An Indigenous Psychology Theory Of Resilience In Southern Africa written by Liesel Ebersöhn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-03 with Psychology categories.
This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways and resilience responses used by elders and young people in urban and rural settings in challenging Southern African settings (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland) to explain an Indigenous Psychology theory. Flocking (rather than fighting, fleeing, freezing or fainting) is explained as a default collectivist, collaborative and pragmatic social innovation to provide communal care and support when resources are constrained, and needs are par for the course. Flocking is used to address, amongst others, climate change (drought and energy use in particular), lack of household income and securing livelihoods, food and nutrition, chronic disease (specifically HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis), barriers to access services(education, healthcare, social welfare support), as well as leisure and wellbeing. The book further deliberates whether the continued use of such an entrenched socio-cultural response mollifies citizens and decision-makers into accepting inequality, or whether it could also be used to spark citizen agency and disrupt longstanding structural disparities.
Indigenous Research Methodologies
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Author : Bagele Chilisa
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2012
Indigenous Research Methodologies written by Bagele Chilisa and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Political Science categories.
Following the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, author Bagele Chilisa has written the first research methods textbook that situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context with case studies from around the globe to make very visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of research and the historical and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples. Chapters cover the history of research methods, colonial epistemologies, research within postcolonial societies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, language frameworks, interviewing, and building partnerships between researchers and the researched. The book comes replete with traditional textbook features such as key points, exercises, and suggested readings, which makes it ideally suited for graduate courses in research methods, especially in education, health, women's studies, cultural studies, sociology, and related social sciences.
Indigenous Knowledge And The Integration Of Knowledge Systems
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Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 2002
Indigenous Knowledge And The Integration Of Knowledge Systems written by Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Law categories.
This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.