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Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities Indigenizing the Academy

Created by: Marie Ann Battiste
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
SKU: NB1627

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Since the Renaissance, liberal education has as its core tradition a Eurocentric multidisciplinary humanism—the study of literature, art, philosophy and history—grounded in ancient Greek and Latin texts.

In what may be termed cognitive imperialism, the academy has largely ignored Aboriginal perspectives of humanity. In this volume, Mi’kmaw and non-Mi’kmaw scholars, teachers and educators posit an interdisciplinary approach to explicate and animate a Mi’kmaw Humanities.

Drawing on the metaphor of a basket as a multilayered metaphor for engaging postsecondary institutions, these essays reveal historical, educational, legal, philosophical, visual and economic frameworks to https://nimbus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9781988747224-1.jpgelop a knowledge protocol that can direct, transform and enrich conventional Humanities within the complex dynamics of territory, energy, stewardship, alterity and consciousness.

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Weight503 g
Dimensions6 × 9 in
Binding

Paperback

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Date Published

November 9 2021

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No of Pages

300

Page Count

300

ISBN

9781774710456