Sciences And Knowledge Practices: Their Culture-Specific Wellsprings

Worldviews, Science and Us: Redemarcating Knowledge and Its Social and Ethical Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 104-122

  Devisch, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Black africa; Cultural embeddedness; Endogenous knowledge practices; Polylogue; Sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894865412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812702043_0008     Document Type: Chapter

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