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- Afrikology, Philosophy and Wholeness: An Epistemology
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Africa Institute of South Africa
summary
How do we understand and create kowledge? Does scientific knowledge cover all knowledge? Afrikology tries to answer these questions by tracing the issue of epistemology to the Cradle of Humanity in Africa and through such a reflection the Monograph establishes a basis for holistic and integrated ways of knowledge production that makes it possible to interface scientific knowledge with other forms of knowledge. In this way Afrikology responds to the crisis created by the fragmentation of knowledge through existing academic disciplines. Afrikology therefore advances transdisciplinarity and hermeneutics to a level where they attain a coherent basis for interacting with Afrikology as an epistemology which returns wholeness to understanding and knowledge production.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-3
- Divination, shamanism and wholeness
- pp. 39-46
- Femininity, knowledge and Afrikology
- pp. 61-65
- The central role of language
- pp. 82-90
- Towards Afrikology and a new philosophy
- pp. 91-110
- Afrikology, hermeneutics and understanding
- pp. 111-123
- References
- pp. 166-170
Additional Information
ISBN
9780798303217
Related ISBN(s)
9780798302555
MARC Record
OCLC
801817874
Pages
178
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No