Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge

Chapter 1 Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge and Education: An Introduction

Chapter 2 The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts

Chapter 3 Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States

Chapter 4 Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education: Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered

Chapter 5 Educational Inequalities Reflecting Sociocultural and Geographical Embeddedness? Exploring the Place of Hispanics and Hispanic Cultures in Higher Education and Research Institutions in New Mexico

Chapter 6 Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts

Chapter 7 The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective

Chapter 8 Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia

Chapter 9 Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions

Chapter 10 Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan

Chapter 11 “Masawa—bogeokwa si tuta!”: Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders’ Gradual Loss of Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe

Chapter 12 Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies

Chapter 13 Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa