The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa

✍ Scribed by Rudi de Lange; Ingrid Stevens; Runette Kruger

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 370
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.

✦ Subjects

Arts, African. ; Indigenous peoples-Africa-21st century.; NON000000; NON000000; NON000000

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