Knowledge cultures :: comparative Western and African epistemology /

This volume compares the western ideas of knowledge with the African. It aims at creating a mirror through which the western knowledge culture can look at itself through an unusual and interesting angle. The culture of Sub-Saharan Africa is the substance from which we, in this book, have tried to co...

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Other Authors: Hamminga, Bert, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Series:Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 88.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This volume compares the western ideas of knowledge with the African. It aims at creating a mirror through which the western knowledge culture can look at itself through an unusual and interesting angle. The culture of Sub-Saharan Africa is the substance from which we, in this book, have tried to construe an epistemological mirror.
Physical Description:1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1423791029
9781423791027
ISSN:0303-8157 ;

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