Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Meusburger, Tim Freytag, Laura Suarsana.
• Editors: Meusburger, Peter; Freytag, Tim; Suarsana, Laura
• Contents: 1. Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Knowledge: An Introduction.- 2. The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts.- 3. Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States.- 4. Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education—Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered.- 5. Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness?—Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico, the United States.- 6. Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts.- 7. The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands' Perspective.- 8. Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia.- 9. Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions.- 10. Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan.- 11.'Masawa—bogeokwa si tuta!': Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders' Gradually Lossof Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe.- 12. Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies.- 13 Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: Social sciences; Human Geography; Science -- Study and teaching; Anthropology; Science -- Study & Teaching; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Teaching of a specific subject; Regional geography; Anthropology; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319219004
• Related ISBNs: 9783319218991
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