AD, Volume 30, n° 3, 2005 - Numéro Complet

Résumé

Sommaire

1. All knowledge is first of all local knowledge: An introduction

Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch .............................1

2. Is there one science, Western science?

Theophilus Okere ............................20

African Mathematical Systems

3. Traditional Igbo numbering system

Patrick Mathias C. Ogomaka .........................35

4. Ethnomathematics, geometry and educational experience in Africa

Paulus Gerdes ....................................48

African Health Systems

5. Domesticationof medicinal plants in Southestern Nigeria

A. E. Ibe and Martin I. Nwufo ...........................66

6. Understanding Igbo medicine practitioners

Patrick Iroegbu ......................................78

7. Cultural modes of comprehending and healing insanity: The Yaka of DR Congo

René Devisch .............................93

African Arts

8. Subjectivity in servitude: The servant and indigenous family arrangements in written Igbo drama

Frances N. Chukwukere ............................112

9. I dance Ala Igbo (Poem)

Chikwendu P. K. Anyanwu ..........................130

Review Article/Revues de livres

Spectralizing Bergson and the Dilemmas of Decolonization. A review of Messay Kebede, Africa's Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization, 2004.

Sanya Osha .................................13