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Contributions to alternative concepts of knowledge /

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as #x91;indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an ent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuhn, Michael, 1947- (Editor ), Vessuri, Hebe (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2016]
Colección:Beyond the social sciences ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The misery of defining what scientific knowledge is-and what not; SECTION I: ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS OF KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 2: Towards a dialogue between knowledge systems. Learning experiences in indigenous contexts in Mexico; Chapter 3: Alternatives to Nostalgia for Colonial Ethnology in the African Postcolonial Theory; Chapter 4: The Interlinkages between Western and Indigenous Psychology in 20th and early 21st-century India; Chapter 5: Knowledge as Interaction: An Alternative Epistemology from Rural Mexico.
  • Chapter 6: Indigenous knowledge in the social sciences: comunalidad and the challenge to Western categoriesChapter 7: What can Science and Technology Studies do with and for Latin America?; Chapter 8: Decolonising social sciences in remote Australia; Chapter 9: Culturalising Social Knowledges as a Critique of Euro-American Social Sciences; Chapter 10: Rereading of Metaphysical Foundations of Humanities in the Light of the Qur'an's Teachings; SECTION II: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DISCOURSE ABOUT ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS OF KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 11: What is foreign knowledge?
  • Chapter 12: Alternatives to the Globalising Humanities and Social SciencesChapter 13: Some comments about spatiological thinking-the final universalisation of the ""European"" social sciences; Bibliographical Notes.