In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as 'indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the world of European social science, but the indigenization of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centers. This book offers contributions to the conversation on alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are truly alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge.

Acknowledgements1. The misery of defining what scientific knowledge is-and what not, by Michael Kuhn and Hebe Vessuri
Section I: Alternative concepts of knowledge
2. Towards a dialogue between knowledge systems Learning experiences in indigenous contexts in Mexico, by Juan Pablo Vázquez Gutiérrez and Pablo Reyna Esteves
3. Alternatives to Nostalgia for Colonial Ethnology in the African Postcolonial Theory, by Léon-Marie Nkolo Ndjodo
4. The Interlinkages between Western and Indigenous Psychology in 20th- and early 21st-century India, by Christiane Hartnack
5. Knowledge as Interaction. An Alternative Epistemology from Rural Mexico, by Roger Magazine
6. Indigenous knowledge in the social sciences. comunalidad and the challenge to Western categories, by Claudia Magallanes-Blanco and Leandro Rodriguez-Medina
7. What can Science and Technology Studies do with and for Latin America?, by Ivan da Costa Marques
8. Decolonising social sciences in remote Australia, by Michael Christie
9. Culturalising Social Knowledges as a Critique of Euro-American Social Sciences: Learning from Deconstructing Poverty in the Shadow of Gandhian Social Theory, by Kumaran Rajagopal
10. Rereading of Metaphysical Foundations of Humanities in the Light of the Qur'an's Teachings, by Qodratullah Qorbani
Section II: Contributions to the discourse about alternative concepts of knowledge
11. What is foreign knowledge?, by Leandro Rodriguez Medina
12. Alternatives to the Globalising Humanities and Social Sciences: Comments to the ideas presented at the Mexico WSSHNetwork workshop, by Michael Christie
13. Some comments about spatiological thinking-the final universalisation of the "European" social sciences, by Michael Kuhn
Biographical Notes