VOLUME 4(3) • 2016
EDITORIAL: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
ABSTRACT. It is with great pleasure and pride that we present this inaugural issue in what is planned to be an ongoing series on Indigenous Knowledge. This is an opportunity not only to build a think tank for scholarship on indigenous knowledge and indigenous philosophies; it moreover provides indig..
KNOWLEDGE EMBODIMENT THROUGH DANCE: A STUDY CASE AMONG THE COLOMBIAN SIKUANI
ABSTRACT. The transmission of shamanic information through words is not enough: the em-bodi-ment of knowledge acquires central importance. This paper introduces the testimony of a sikuani shaman named Clemente Gaitán. In Clemente’s childhood memories, participation in the “Way of the Gods” dance (Ts..
THE MAINTENANCE OF MAORI CLASSICAL LITERATURE ON THE MARAE
ABSTRACT. The marae and the institutions of tangihanga (funereal customs) have maintained and sustained the Maori language, its attendant culture and the Maori classical literature that survives today. On these occasions the Maori world view is given full expression in an authentic setting in the 21..
HOLDING ON TO TLINGIT CULTURE THROUGH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Tlingit scholars and elders are glaringly aware of the need to re-connect with their deep ancestral histories by re-searching western literature alongside primary indigenous culture and knowledge-bearers of the Tlingit culture. The exploration and inclusion of indigenous knowledges at broa..
THE ONTOLOGICAL AND ACTIVE POSSIBILITIES OF ‘PAPATUANUKU’: TO NURTURE OR ENFRAME?
ABSTRACT. Occasionally, support for indigenous peoples can come from unexpected quarters. This assertion of mine is based on the idea that those philosophers or sets of philosophies that originate from a different cultural background from (in my case) Maori ones are nevertheless productive for Maori..
DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY VERSUS THE EVIL OF STANDARDIZED EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Tamazight, the Indigenous language family of North Africa, is rich due to the diversity of its dialects and the extended lands that it covers. The Tamazight language family includes the Kabyle, the language and name of my own people from northeast Algeria, who belong to the Indigenous Imaz..
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION POLICY FOR TEACHERS OF MAORI LEARNERS
ABSTRACT. This article uses critical policy discourse analysis to examine the inclusion of indigenous Maori knowledge within contemporary Maori education policy, by comparing two Maori education polices written 40 years apart: Maori children and the teacher (MC&T, 1971) and Tataiako: Cultural co..
INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES WITHIN THE COLONIAL PROJECT: RECLAIMING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES IN THE WESTERN ACADEMY
ABSTRACT. In this article we investigate strategies for authentically engaging Indigenous knowledges in the epistemologically Western “uni-versity” using data from cross-institutional, virtual international student exchanges between University of Alaska Fairbanks and Victoria University of Wellingto..
TEU LE VA: SAMOAN RELATIONAL ETHICS
ABSTRACT. Development of Pacific research guidelines can become unnecessarily cluttered, with competing, unclear designs, and gaps in the transference of customary knowledge across space and time. Standard ethics discourse goes some way in coming to know the bones of the person in a general context,..
FEATURE ARTICLE: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, METHODOLOGY AND MAYHEM: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF METHODOLOGY IN PRODUCING INDIGENOUS INSIGHTS? A DISCUSSION FROM MATAURANGA MAORI
ABSTRACT. The emergence of an academic discourse called Indigenous knowledge internationally, and matauranga Maori in Aotearoa New Zealand, presents some substantive challenges to concepts of knowing and being, of knowledge creation, knowledge work and the making of meaning. These challenges engage ..