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

✍ Scribed by Patrick Ngulube (editor)

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 540
• Series: Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Book Series
Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
List of Contributors
Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgment
Chapter 1: Binarism as a Recipe for Lukewarm Research into Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Zimbabwe
Chapter 2: Researching Indigenous Ways of Knowing-and-Being
Chapter 3: Fourth World Theory and Methods of Inquiry
Chapter 4: Learning and Asserting an African Indigenous Health Research Framework
Chapter 5: Language, Participation, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research in Mqatsheni, South Africa
Chapter 6: Application and Contribution of Hermeneutic and Eidetic Phenomenology to Indigenous Knowledge Research
Chapter 7: Research Protocols and Ethical Considerations in Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Chapter 8: Indigenous Knowledge Intelligence and African Development
Chapter 9: Conceptualizing the Knowledge of Traditional and Indigenous Communities Using Informetrics Approaches
Chapter 10: Use of Information and Communication Technologies Tools to Capture, Store, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge
Chapter 11: Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa
Chapter 12: Indigenous Knowledges and Knowledge Codification in the Knowledge Economy
Chapter 13: Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge through Indigenous Languages in Zimbabwe
Chapter 14: Critical Reflections on Selected Local Narratives of Contextual South African Indigenous Knowledge
Chapter 15: Multiple Voices, Multiple Paths
Chapter 16: Hybrid Method for Exploring Efficacy of Indigenous Management of Common Cold through African Therapy
Chapter 17: Pluralistic Tendencies in Healing Abantu Illness in the Contemporary South Africa
Chapter 18: Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context
Chapter 19: Indigenous Communication
Chapter 20: Factors Militating Against the Development of Tiv Indigenous Knowledge
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index