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Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture
\"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\"--Provided by publisher.
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Indigenous knowledge and learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : perspectives on development, education, and culture
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.
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Wild profusion
Wild Profusiontells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature. Celia Lowe argues that biodiversity, in 1990s Indonesia, implied a particular convergence of nature, nation, science, and identity that made Indonesians' mapping of the concept distinct within transnational practices of nature conservation at the time.
Lowe recounts the efforts of Indonesian biologists to document the species of the Togean Islands, to \"develop\" Togean people, and to turn this archipelago off the coast of Sulawesi into a national park. Indonesian scientists aspired to a conservation biology that was both internationally recognizable and politically effective in the Indonesian context. Simultaneously, Lowe describes the experiences of Togean Sama people who had their own understandings of nature and nation. To place Sama and scientist into the same conceptual frame, Lowe studies Sama ideas in the context of transnational thought rather than local knowledge.
In tracking the practice of conservation biology in a postcolonial setting,Wild Profusionexplores what in nature can count as important and for whom.
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Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940: the forgotten history
This pioneering book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya. As such, it deepens and broadens recent historiography of the complex constitution of the British Empire. The British Empire, although ideologically racist, nevertheless relied upon staff of all nationalities and ethnicities. Ideas and practices were imported between various colonial dependencies as much as they evolved responsively to local conditions. The book highlights the complex ambiguities of Empire; advancing modern studies of the British Empire as a linked, multi-centred global phenomenon, while also providing a case study that enriches local understandings of the practice of medicine in a racially segregated context. Chapters examine in turn the main possible career options for Indian medical graduates as well as setting out the racial and political context of colonial Kenya. An impressively large and varied source base has been consulted throughout resulting in startling new insights into the complex operation of western medicine in this racially segregated world.
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Modern crises and traditional strategies
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Niño), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.
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A Further Study of the Cognitive Significance of the Number Four in Eurasia
This paper explores the cognitive possibility that early people, in the course of cultural exchange in Eurasia, may have sequentially equated the numbers of counting with the time series used in the archaic Chinese calendar and in the zodiac calendar with twelve symbolic animals. In the case of the number four, as a result of this cognitive tendency, the Anatolian numerals for four (Hittite mieu-miu, Luwian mauwa-) had a connection with Chinese mau (Old Sinitic *mau / *meu) 'the fourth of the twelve earthly branches'.
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From Clarifying Pearls and Gems to Water Coagulation with Alum. History, Surviving Practices, and Technical Assessment
Ancient Indian texts (Milindapañha, Suśruta sarnhitā) mention gems as clarifiers for turbid water. Gemmineralogical and chemotechnical assessments of philological interpretations showed that reference to pearls and hessonite (transformed to hydrogrossular) indicates practical experience. Rock crystal, also the \"wish-granting gem\" of Buddhas and Boddhisattvas instead of a pearl, only resembles ice. Alum, substitute of water-clearing animal or plant materials used by the illiterate lower classes, was mainly promoted by men. The widespread traditional water clarification with alum in China (thanks to rich resources and various artisans using alum) seems to have encouraged worldwide application in waterworks. Due to better understanding of health risks, alum consumption is now reduced.
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Some Imaginative Functions of Consciousness from a Balinese Form of Life on Lombok
\"Imaginative Functions of Consciousness\" refers to dreams, daydreams, sexual fantasies, visions, theology, and metaphysics. Data addressed are of three kinds: social facts collected during fieldwork; the writer's own experiences (especially dreaming); imaginative constructions. Aspects of these imaginative functions are described and explicated in indigenous terms, in the fìrst instance. Ideas are discernible in these aspects of Balinese which are pervasive in and fundamental to daily social life. A possible new kind of reversal is discovered. The study suggests, that the Balinese are far less free than romantic individualism would probably allow; that the mental operations to which their form of life inclines them are more imaginative and fantastical than cogitational and ratiocinative; and that the Balinese form of life is a rich and complex totality (in the sense that the same principles of order frame its various indigenously defìned aspects), even though it lacks prescription; it demonstrates the truth of the premise upon which social anthropology is based and which makes the subject possible, the unity of mankind.
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