Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our Worlds

by Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg and Budd L. Hall

Indigenous knowledges are understood as the commonsense ideas and cultural knowledges of local peoples concerning the everyday realities of living. This definition refers to the epistemic saliency of cultural traditions, values, belief systems and world views that, in any indigenous society, are imparted to the younger generation by community elders. It is also refers to world views that are products of a profoundly direct experience of nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080596
• ISBN13: 9780802080592
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher