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Title:

Knowing differently : the challenge of the indigenous / editors, G.N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K.K. Chakravarty.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xviii, 354 pages, 10 unnumber pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Ethnopsychology.
Cognition and culture.

Other Authors:

Devy, G. N., 1950- editor of compilation.
Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943- editor of compilation.
Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar, 1947- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Being 'primitive' in a modern world: the Andaman islanders / Vishvajit Pandya -- Co-existence of multiple timeframes: narratives of myths and cosmogony in India / Vibha S. Chauhan -- Pimatisiwin indigenous knowledge systems, north and south / Priscilla Settee -- Metaphors of fertility, phallic anxieties and expiation of grief in the Babukusu funeral oratory / Chris J. C. Wasike -- The (re-)imag(in)ing of the Oba of Benin in Nigerian dramatic literature and its implications in indigenous studies / Israel Meriomame Wekpe and Alero Uwawah -- 'Kasapa': mobile telephony and changing healthcare communication in Ghana / Perpetual Crentsil -- Discourse of resistance and protest in Meitei folklore / Leisangthem Gitarani Devi -- Sovereign ontologies in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand: indigenous responses to asylum seekers, refugees and overstayers / Emma Cox -- Indigenous worldviews and environmental footprints: the case of Prometheus vs Hermes / A. O. Balcomb --
Folk heritage and classical lore: the grand narratives from the Aegean archipelago and Derek Walcott's Caribbean Creole readings / Eckhard Breitinger -- Conceptualizing space and indigenous knowledge: articulations and considerations for natural resource management in the Himalayas / Seema M. Parihar, P. K. Parihar, Soma Sarkar and Shilpy Sharma -- Breaking the power of patriarchy: Unity Dow's novel The screaming of the innocent / Geoffrey V. Davis -- The national, the Indian, and empowering performance: festive practices in the Highlands (Bolivia) / Ximena C©đrdova -- Contemporary Maori painting: pictorial representation of land and landscape / Dieter Riemenschneider -- Art, landscape, and identity in She plays with the darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion / Gail Fincham -- Indigenous languages in the post-colonial era / Zahid Akter -- The struggle for survival: globalization and its impact on tribal women in Kerala / Lata Marina Varghese --
Eco-fraternity of Kurum(b)a tribes in Wayanad, Kerala / Nelson P. Abraham.

ISBN:

0415710561
9780415710565

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858091583

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)