ISBN:
0821444115
,
9780821444115
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 335 pages)
Series Statement:
Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America
DDC:
304.2096
Keywords:
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
Africa
;
Traditional ecological knowledge Africa
;
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
North America
;
Traditional ecological knowledge North America
;
Africa
;
North America
;
Traditional ecological knowledge
;
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
Traditional ecological knowledge
;
Indigenous peoples Ecology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
HISTORY ; General
;
Ethnoecology
;
Traditional ecological knowledge
;
Africa
;
North America
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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