ISBN:
9781782382102
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (302 p.)
Series Statement:
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 4
Keywords:
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)
Abstract:
While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered “primitive” and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others’ knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Acknowledgements
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List of Contributors
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1. Local Science vs. Global Science: an Overview
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2. Traditional Medical Knowledge and Twenty-first Century Healthcare: the Interface between Indigenous and Modern Science
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3. Local and Scientific Understanding of Forest Diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia
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4. ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
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5. On Knowing and Not Knowing: the Many Valuations of Piaroa Local Knowledge
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6. The Ashkui Project: Linking Western Science and Innu Environmental Knowledge in Creating a Sustainable Environment
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7. Globalisation and the Construction of Western and Non-Western Knowledge
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8. Science and Local Knowledge in Sri Lanka: Extension, Rubber and Farming
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9. Creating Natural Knowledge: Agriculture, Science and Experiments
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10. Is Intellectual Property Protection a Good Idea?
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11. Farmer Knowledge and Scientist Knowledge in Sustainable Agricultural Development: Ontology, Epistemology and Praxis
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12. Forgotten Futures: Scientific Models vs. Local Visions of Land Use Change
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13. Counting on Local Knowledge
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782382102
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