Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place

An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privil...

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Main Author: Edited by Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2016
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