Ethnoscience, Traditional knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, Ethnology, Colonialism, Cross-cultural studies, Ethnophilosophy, Traditional medicine 

"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 and its relationship with the social world. Bringing new and complex readings to the term 'indigenous', this collection of essays from Canadian and international contributors is an invitation to critically engage in the discussion of indigenous knowledges and their implication for academic decolonization. The essays are divided into four sections: Situating Indigenous Knowledges: Definitions and Boundaries; Indigenous Knowledge: Resistance and Advocacy; Indigenous Knowledge and the Academy; and Indigenous Knowledge and Transforming Practices. Collectively the essays situate indigenous knowledges in relation to conventional knowledges, validate the existence of multiple sources of knowledge, and examine the varying strategies, projects, and theories that are currently being developed in support of indigenous knowledges.
The book draws attention to some of the nuances, contradictions, and contestations in affirming the place of indigenous knowledges in the academy, while maintaining that different bodies of knowledges continually influence each other to reveal the dynamism of all knowledge systems."--Amazon. 

xvi, 282 pages ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
Updating Aboriginal traditions of knowledge / Marlene Brant Castellano
Heart knowledge, blood memory, and the voice of the land: implications of research among Hawaiian elders / Leilani Holmes
Indigenous knowledge : lessons from the elders- a Kenyan case study / Njoki Nathani Wane
African development : the relevance and implications of 'indigenousness' / George J. Sefa Dei
Oral Narratives as a site of resistance : indigenous knowledge, colonialism, and western discourse / Elizabeth McIsaac
The retention of knowledge of folkways as a basis for resistance / Patience Elabor-Idemudia
Indigenous nations and the human genome diversity project / Sandra S. Awang
Toward indigenous wholeness : feminist praxis in transformative learning on health and the environment / Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg
Native studies and the academy / Joseph Couture
Toward an embodied pedagogy : exploring health and the body through Chinese medicine / Roxana Ng
Not so strange bedfellows : indigenous knowledge, literature studies, and African development / Handel Kashope Wright
Breaking the educational silence : For Seven Generations, an information legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples / Budd L. Hall
Ayurveda : mother of indigenous health knowledge / Farah M. Shroff
Partnership in practice : some reflections on the Aboriginal healing and wellness strategy / Suzanne Dudziak
Peace research and African development : an indigenous African perspective / Thomas Mark Turay
Mpambo, the African multiversity: a philosophy to rekindle the African spirit / Paul Wangoola.