Ethnic and Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge (eBook)

1. Cultural and Ethnic Dimensions of Knowledge: An Introduction.- 2. The School System as an Arena of Ethnic Conflicts.- 3. Race, Politics, and Geography in the Development of Public Schools in the Southern United States.- 4. Spatial Traditions of Knowledge and Education—Ethnic Groups in the United States Reconsidered.- 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, the United States.- 6. Local Cultural Resource Knowledge, Identity, Representation, Schooling, and Education in Euro-Canadian Contexts.- 7. The Knowing in Indigenous Knowledge: Alternative Ways to View Development, Largely from a New Guinea Highlands’ Perspective.- 8. Local Knowledge as a Universal Social Product: A General Model and a Case from Southeast Asia.- 9. Local Knowledge and Global Concerns: Artificial Glaciers as a Focus of Environmental Knowledge and Development Interventions.- 10. Political Economy, Power, and the Erasure of Pastoralist Indigenous Knowledge in the Maghreb and Afghanistan.- 11.“Masawa—bogeokwa si tuta!”: Cultural and Cognitive Implications of the Trobriand Islanders’ Gradually Lossof Their Knowledge of How to Make a Masawa Canoe.- 12. Beyond Merry-Making: Customs of Indigenous Peoples and the Normative Functions of Ceremonies in Precolonial Igbo Societies.- 13 Knowledge, Behavior, and Culture: HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.