"How we know": Kwara'ae rural villagers doing indigenous epistemology

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-88

  Gegeo, David Welchman ^a   Watson Gegeo, Karen Ann ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Indigenous critical praxis; Indigenous epistemology; Kwara'ae; Solomon; Villagers conducting research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035632992     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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