Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive - Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Our Knowledge Is Not Primitive

Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2023
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-3806-3 (ISBN)
21,10 inkl. MwSt
Contrasts the way in which Anishinaabe botanical knowledge is presented in the academic record with how it is preserved in Anishinaabe culture. Wendy Makoons Geniusz seeks to open a dialogue to discuss methods for decolonizing existing texts and to develop innovative approaches for conducting more culturally meaningful research in the future.
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 Makoons Geniusz contrasts the way in which Anishinaabe botanical knowledge is presented in the academic record with how it is preserved in Anishinaabe culture. In doing so she seeks to open a dialogue between the two communities to discuss methods for decolonizing existing texts and to develop innovative approaches for conducting more culturally meaningful research in the future.

As an Anishinaabe who grew up in a household practicing traditional medicine and who went on to become a scholar of American Indian studies and the Ojibwe language, Geniusz possesses the authority of someone with a foot firmly planted in each world. Her unique ability to navigate both indigenous and scientific perspectives makes this book an invaluable contribution to the field of Native American studies and enriches our understanding of the Anishinaabe and other native communities.

Wendy Makoons Geniusz is an Indigenous woman of Cree and Métis decent. She was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but her Cree family comes from the Pas, a Reserve in Manitoba. She is director of American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire and she teaches courses in the Ojibwe language.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
Zusatzinfo 14 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Botanik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8156-3806-X / 081563806X
ISBN-13 978-0-8156-3806-3 / 9780815638063
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