Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries

Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries

Patrick Ngulube

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 516

ISBN13: 9781522508335|ISBN10: 1522508333|EISBN13: 9781522508342

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0833-5

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There has been a growth in the use, acceptance, and popularity of indigenous knowledge. High rates of poverty and a widening economic divide is threatening the accessibility to western scientific knowledge in the developing world where many indigenous people live. Consequently, indigenous knowledge has become a potential source for sustainable development in the developing world.

The Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries presents interdisciplinary research on knowledge management, sharing, and transfer among indigenous communities. Providing a unique perspective on alternative knowledge systems, this publication is a critical resource for sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and graduate-level students in a variety of fields.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management (AKATM) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Binarism as a Recipe for Lukewarm Research into Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Zimbabwe (pages 1-21)

Jacob Mapara

The thesis of this chapter is that there is need for vigorous and robust research into Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in Zimbabwe. It argues that such research is afflicted by binarism, an affliction that permeates the Zimbabwean...

Chapter 2

Researching Indigenous Ways of Knowing-and-Being: Revitalizing Relational Quality of Living (pages 22-49)

Norma Ruth Arlene Romm

This chapter focuses on exploring the contributions of indigenous-oriented relational thinking-and-being in terms of implications for the quality of social living and for sustaining relationships with everything in our ecological...

Chapter 3

Fourth World Theory and Methods of Inquiry (pages 50-84)

Rudolph Carl Ryser, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Heidi G. Bruce

Fourth World Theory (FWT) emerged in the experience of political leaders and scholars seeking to explain the position of non-state nations and peoples in their political and sometimes violent interactions with other non-state nations...

Chapter 4

Learning and Asserting an African Indigenous Health Research Framework (pages 85-99)

Abel Jacobus Pienaar

The researcher locates the research into the context of the current situation of African Indigenous Health Knowledge Systems enquiry. The study interrogates the use of research frameworks and paradigms that are based on western...

Chapter 5

Language, Participation, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research in Mqatsheni, South Africa (pages 100-126)

Constance Khupe

This chapter is informed by findings from a science education interpretive study carried out in collaboration with an isiZulu-speaking community. Indigenous languages constitute intellectual and cultural resources that are important...

Chapter 6

Application and Contribution of Hermeneutic and Eidetic Phenomenology to Indigenous Knowledge Research (pages 127-155)

Patrick Ngulube, Beatrice Ngulube

Many scholars on indigenous research advocate research approaches that negate western research traditions. Although phenomenology is part and parcel of the classical western research approaches, it has the potential to offer...

Chapter 7

Research Protocols and Ethical Considerations in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (pages 156-172)

Mogege David Mosimege

Research in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in South Africa has grown at a very high pace in a relatively short period of time. The growth thereof has presented researchers and the knowledge holders with challenges that have never...

Chapter 8

Indigenous Knowledge Intelligence and African Development (pages 173-197)

Alexander Maune

This chapter examines some of the reasons why Indigenous Knowledge Intelligence (IKI) has been marginalised, especially from an Afro-centric point of view and how Africa has lagged behind economically although it is considered to be...

Chapter 9

Conceptualizing the Knowledge of Traditional and Indigenous Communities Using Informetrics Approaches (pages 198-224)

Patrick Ngulube, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha

Interest in indigenous knowledge is growing because of its potential to promote and sustain development activities. Inspite of the recognition of the significance of indigenous knowledge there is limited agreement on its definition...

Chapter 10

Use of Information and Communication Technologies Tools to Capture, Store, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge: A Literature Review (pages 225-247)

Petros Nhlavu Dlamini

This chapter explores the role played by Information and Communication Technology tools in the management of indigenous Knowledge in general. Of importance to note, therefore, is the fact that the emergence of Information and...

Chapter 11

Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa (pages 248-266)

Mass Tapfuma, Ruth Hoskins

Much research has been done on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at African universities but the results are inaccessible as they remain scattered all over in researchers' offices, yet IK plays a significant role in Africa's...

Chapter 12

Indigenous Knowledges and Knowledge Codification in the Knowledge Economy (pages 267-288)

Edward Shizha

The production, dissemination and archivization of knowledge are important processes in contemporary knowledge economy. Questions on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) arise when Indigenous Knowledges (IKs) are examined and evaluated...

Chapter 13

Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge through Indigenous Languages in Zimbabwe (pages 289-309)

Lawton Hikwa, Esabel Maisiri

The chapter seeks to demonstrate the need to preserve indigenous knowledge through the preservation of indigenous languages in Zimbabwe. This is premised on linguistic determinism which states that language precedes thought and...

Chapter 14

Critical Reflections on Selected Local Narratives of Contextual South African Indigenous Knowledge (pages 310-331)

Mogomme Alpheus Masoga

Every humanity has some form of indigeneity – whether conscious or unconscious. It behooves all humanity to redefine and reflect on its indigenous roots. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) has been termed in different ways. These include...

Chapter 15

Multiple Voices, Multiple Paths: Towards Dialogue between Western and Indigenous Medical Knowledge Systems (pages 332-358)

Rutendo Ngara

The Western knowledge paradigm – with its ways of knowing, ways of seeing and its notions of reality - has dominated the global knowledge arena, rendering many indigenous knowledge systems as invalid, illegitimate and irrelevant....

Chapter 16

Hybrid Method for Exploring Efficacy of Indigenous Management of Common Cold through African Therapy (pages 359-374)

David Mphuthi, Abel Jacobus Pienaar

Medicinal plants have been used by indigenous people for the treatment of different conditions since time immemorial. About 80% of the population in the world uses medicinal plants as the first line of treatment (WHO, 2003). The main...

Chapter 17

Pluralistic Tendencies in Healing Abantu Illness in the Contemporary South Africa (pages 375-394)

Kholekile Hazel Ngqila

Ukuhanjwa illness was used as an example to understanding abantu illnesses. With attributional theory ukuhanjwa illness is attributed to spiritual and social causes rather than biomedical causes, whereby causal link is socially...

Chapter 18

Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context: A Ghanaian Contribution towards Provision of Culturally Competent Care (pages 395-410)

Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah, Gordon M. Donnir

This chapter posits that the science of psychotherapy is a culturally defined art. Psychological theories must, of necessity and efficacy, be adapted and responsive to the context within which they are practiced. The Ghanaian...

Chapter 19

Indigenous Communication: A Narrative of Selected Indigenous Practices of the Akan Group of Ghana (pages 411-421)

Adelaide Owusu Agyepong

Communication can be defined as a way of sharing ideas, information, opinions and feelings. This can also be described as a process through which information could be transferred from one entity to the other either verbally through...

Chapter 20

Factors Militating Against the Development of Tiv Indigenous Knowledge (pages 422-443)

Tim Cuttings Agber

The Tiv people right from the time of old possessed a handsome knowledge about their origin, way of life or traditions, science and technology including means of cultivating crops and ways of trapping or killing animals for food...

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Compilation of References

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