Kaandossiwin : how we come to know

Author/Creator:

Absolon, Kathleen E., 1961-

Publication/Creation:

Winnipeg : Fernwood, [2011]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Kaandossiwin : how we come to know / Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe).

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

First Nations--Research--Methodology
Research--Methodology
Ethnoscience
First Nation scholars

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Preparing to search -- Indigenous re-search -- Introducing the re-searchers and their searches -- Wholistic worldviews and methodologies -- The roots: paradigms, worldviews and principles -- The flower centre: self as central -- The leaves: the methodological journey -- The stem: backbone and supports -- The petals; diverse methodologies -- The enviro-academic context -- Winding down the search.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references: pages 169-175.

Summary:

"Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe researcher Kathy Absolon examines the academic work of eleven Indigenous scholars who utilize Indigenous worldviews in their search for knowing. Through an examination not only of their work but also of their experience in producing that work, Kaandossiwin describes how Indigenous researchers re-theorize and re-create methodologies. Understanding Indigenous methodologies as guided by Indigenous paradigms, worldviews, principles, processes and contexts, Absolon argues that they are wholistic, relational, inter-relational and interdependent with Indigenous philosophies, beliefs and ways of life. In exploring the ways Indigenous researchers use Indigenous methodologies within mainstream academia, Kaandossiwin renders these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from colonial repression."--P. [4] of cover.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

990033079850302486

ISBN:

9781552664407
1552664406

OCLC Number:

728825884

Barcode:

010002714011