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Title The arts and Indigenous knowledge systems in a modernized Africa / edited by De Lange Rudi, Stevens Ingrid, Kruger Runette and Sirayi Mzo
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 358 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; About the Authors
Summary This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Arts, African.
Indigenous peoples -- Africa -- 21st century
Cultural studies.
The arts.
Literature & literary studies.
ART -- History -- General.
Arts, African
Indigenous peoples
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Rudi de Lange, editor
Ingrid, Stevens, editor
Runette, Kruger, editor
Mzo, Sirayi, editor
ISBN 9781527523623
1527523624