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Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems

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Volume 2 2003
Contents

Introduction                                                                                                                  

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Indigenous Land Use Management in Lower Changane Chibuto: Sacred and Profane Desacralisation and Recovery                   

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Zacarias Alexandre Ombe

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Research Methods in Indigenous Mathematical Knowledge: An Example of a Research Model Based on Indigenous Games    

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Mogege Mosimege

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A Theoretical and Empirical Model for Soil Conservation Using Indigenous Knowledge    

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Kazemi, M. Shahvali, M. and Zarafshani, K

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Indigenous Approach to Weather Forecasting in Asa L.G.A., Kwara State, Nigeria       

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Ajibade, L. T. and Shokemi, O. O.

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Indigenous Knowledge Practices and Role of Gender in Rice Production in Ini, Nigeria

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Akpabio, I. A. and Akankpo, G. O.

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The Usage of Indigenous Plant Materials among Small-Scale Farmers in Niger State Agricultural Development Project     

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Gana, F. S.

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An Ethno-Zoological Survey of Insect and their Allies among the Remos (Ogun State) South Western Nigeria      

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Banjo, A. D., Lawal, O. A., Owolana, O. A., Olubanjo, O. A;Ashidi, J. S., Dedeke, G. A., Soewu, D. A., Owa, S. O.and Sobowale, O. A.

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Design of an Indigenous Music Information Storage and Retrieval System: Lessons for Eritrea  

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Yohannes Abraha Andemichael, Elisam Magara and Joyce Bukirwa Nyumba.

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Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and the Study of Indigenous Knowledge Systems

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Guadencia Mutemeri

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“Tell Me Your Story”: Using Narratives from Interviews to Understand Indigenous Knowledge  

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Sølvi Lillejord & Gunn E. Søreide

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A Methodology for the Collection and Evaluation of Farmers’ Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Developing Countries.   

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Ajibade, Lanre Tajudeen

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Tapping Indigenous Knowledge On The World-Wide Web                                 

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C.J.B. Le Roux.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Review of: Paulus Gerdes, 2003. 200 pp. Awakening of Geometrical Thought in Early Culture, MEP-Publications, Minneapolis MN, ISBN 930656-75-X. (Foreword by Dirk Struik (MIT)    

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Claudia Zaslavsky

Review of: Verran, H. 2001. 277 pp. Science and an African Logic ISBN: 0-226-85391-8 (paperback), ISBN: 0-226-85391-8 (paper). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.   

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Maria Corazon Y. Mendoza