Gebundenes Buch

Knowing Differently

The Challenge of the Indigenous

Herausgeber: Devy, G N; Chakravarty, K K; Davis, Geoffrey V

Beschreibung

Knowing Differently provides a comprehensive account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities across the world through their distinctive understanding - of space and time, joy and pain, life and death, the epistemological clash with the 'scientific' or 'modern' world, along with consequences for their identity, survival and cultural transformation.

Autor

G. N. Devy is Founder, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, and Founder, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda (Vadodara), Gujarat, India. Geoffrey V. Davis is Chairperson, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS). K. K. Chakravarty is Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, and Chancellor, National University of Education Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415710565
• ISBN-10: 0415710561
• Artikelnr.: 38079128