Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive

by Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Book Overview

Traditional Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Chippewa) knowledge, like the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples around the world, has long been collected and presented by researchers who were not a part of the culture they observed. The result is a colonized version of the knowledge, one that is distorted and trivialized by an ill-suited Eurocentric paradigm of scientific investigation and classification. In Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive, Wendy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632045
• ISBN13: 9780815632047
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"