Marine Carrin
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As knowledge is transmitted to new generations it changes constantly, being reinterpreted and reinvented by children and youth. It can be studied only through its circulation and deployment, not as an object in itself. The need to know is universal, but knowledge is always framed by tenets particular to each culture, and it must be studied transculturally.
Transfer of Knowledge and Children's Agency: Reconstructing the Paradigm of Socialization is a transcultural ...
In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns.
This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions ...
A selection of Santal texts covering and eye witness account of the famous Santal Rebellion, the Hul of 1855, creation myth, clan legends, and delineation of Santal cult and ritual.
This book partakes of the post-colonial reassessment of the nineteenth century, where agency is seen to lie, not just with the colonizing centre, but also with the colonized periphery. Here, missionaries from a peripheral part of Europe--including a Norway striving to decolonize itself--try to convert the Santals, an Indian tribe which had rebelled against the intruding colonial order. Provincializing the European origins of the missionaries, the authors try to ...
Globalization processes link centres of power and culture all over the world. But these are surrounded by peripheries, whose integration in the global paradigm is neither an inevitable nor an automatic process, as a naive perception might lead us to believe. In South Asia, such peripheries seem a long way from the cosmopolitanism of Bombay or Bangalore, and the crisis is hardly the same to the ecologist statesman and the herdsman looking for pasture. Societies in ...