Indigenous African Knowledge Production - 9781442648142

Indigenous African Knowledge ProductionFood-Processing Practices Among Kenyan Rural Women\nAuthor(s): Njoki Nathani-Wane\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442648142, 978-1442648142\nSynopsis\nAmong the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving as an entry point into the indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it.\n\n Using personal narratives collected during several years of field research in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu women use proverbs, fables, and folktales to preserve and communicate their world-view, knowledge, and cultural norms. She sho.