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Article: "How We Know": Kwara`ae Rural Villagers Doing Indigenous Epistemology.(The Kwara'ae Genealogy Project, Solomon Islands)
- Article from:
- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Around the world today indigenous ethnic groups are asserting the validity of their own ways of knowing and being, in resistance to the intensifying hegemony of mainstream epistemology from the metropolitan powers. This assertion is not happening only among third-world scholars familiar with the challenges to Anglo-European cosmology and epistemology from postmodernists over the past several decades. It is also happening among rural villagers with little or no schooling or awareness of the debates going on internationally in philosophy and the social sciences. Moreover, the assertion is not only about ethnic identity and revitalizing culture. Villagers are also themselves ...
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