Indigenous Knowledge and Local Power : Negotiating Change in West Africa

Easton, Peter ; Belloncle, Guy

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE;    LITERACY PROGRAMS;    LOCAL COMMUNITIES;    LOCAL KNOWLEDGE;    LOCAL LANGUAGES AGENTS;   

RP-ID  :  22080

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Though the development, articulation,and systematization of indigenous knowledge in Africa aremost often seen as issues of culture and local epistemology,they have at the same time critical power dimensions. Therelation between local knowledge bases - and practitioners -on the one hand and central or Westernized ones on the otheris manifestly a high-power/low-power situation, a mattermost often quite acutely and accurately perceived by localpeople themselves. Until and unless the 'terms oftrade" between these two spheres are significantlyaltered, or at least cast in a framework that promises somerenegotiation, it is entirely understandable that therepositories of indigenous science would choose to keep it"off the market."