| Description |
xiii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in environmental anthropology, 1025-5869 ; v. 5 |
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Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 5
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| Contents |
Ethnobiology and ethnoecology in the context of national laws and international agreements affecting indigenous and local knowledge, traditional resources and intellectual property rights / Darrell Addison Posey -- 'We wander in our ancestors' yard': sea cucumber gathering in Aru, eastern Indonesia / Manon Osseweijer -- The construction and destruction of 'indigenous' knowledge in India's Joint Forest Management programme / Nandini Sundar -- Claims to knowledge, claims to control : environmental conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India / Amita Baviskar -- Locating indigenous environmental knowledge in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- 'Indigenous' regionalism in Japan / John Knight -- The use of fire in northeastern Luzon (Philippines) : conflicting views of local people, scientists and government officials / Andres Masipiqueña, Gerard A. Persoon, and Denyse J. Snelder -- The life-cycle of indigenous knowledge, and the case of natural rubber production / Michael R. Dove -- Enclaved knowledge : indigent and indignant representations of environmental management and development among the Kalasha of Pakistan / Peter Parkes -- Endangered forest, endangered people : environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge / J. Peter Brosius -- Indigenous knowledge : prospects and limitations / Arne Kalland |
| Summary |
"'Indigenous knowledge' (I.K) is a concept now widely employed in development studies, environmental conservation programmes, and in the political rhetoric of international funding agencies, non-governmental organisations and national governments. It is also being increasingly adopted as an insurgent claim of 'indigenous' minorities and regional movements throughout the developing world. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations is the first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of the concept of I.K." "The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Environmental aspects.
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Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Ethnobiology.
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Ethnoscience.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecology.
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| Author |
Bicker, Alan.
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Ellen, R. F., 1947-
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Parkes, Peter (Anthropologist)
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| LC no. |
2002421669 |
| ISBN |
9057024837 |
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9057024845 (paperback) |
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