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Title: Contributions to Alternative Concepts of Knowledge
Condition: New
Author: Michael Kuhn
Contributor: Michael Kuhn (Edited by), Hebe Vessuri (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 3838208943
EAN: 9783838208947
ISBN: 9783838208947
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Date: 01/09/2016
Description: In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as indigenous knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenisation of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centres. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 150mm
Item Weight: 356g
Release Year: 2016

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