![]() ![]() The book is fueled by anger in addition to a thorough knowledge of the literature on which rests the Western tradition of classifying and representing the other. ![]() An indigenous woman, the daughter of a Maori anthropologist, she grew up in a world in which science and Maori beliefs and practices coexisted. Tuhiwai Smith is an Associate Professor in Education and Director of the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. The author describes the devastating effects of such research on indigenous peoples and articulates a new Indigenous Research Agenda which aims to replace former Western academic methods. In 200 pages she presents a cogent critique not only of anthropology, but of the cultural evolution of the entire Western concept of research. In this important book, Linda Tuhiwai Smith meets a formidable challenge. ![]()
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