ISBN:
0415258685
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0415258693
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 270 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
ASA monographs v. 34
Parallel Title:
Print version Participating in Development : Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge
DDC:
307.1/4
Keywords:
Technical assistance Anthropological aspects
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Applied anthropology
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Natural resources management areas
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Community development
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Indigenous peoples Ecology
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Ethnoscience
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Applied anthropology ; Developing countries
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Community development ; Developing countries
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Ethnoscience ; Developing countries
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Indigenous peoples ; Ecology ; Developing countries
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Natural resources management areas ; Developing countries
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Technical assistance ; Anthropological aspects ; Developing countries
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Participant observation to participatory development: making anthropology work; Upsetting the sacred balance: can the study of indigenous knowledge reflect cosmic connectedness?; Beyond the cognitive paradigm: majority knowledges and local discourses in a non-Western donor society; Ethnotheory, ethnopraxis: ethnodevelopment in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia; Canadian First Nations' experiences with international development; Globalizing indigenous knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
Negotiating with knowledge at development interfaces: anthropology and the quest for participationIndigenous knowledge, power and parity: models of knowledge integration; Interdisciplinary research and GIS: why local and indigenous knowledge are discounted; Indigenous and scientific knowledge of plant breeding: similarities, differences and implications for collaboration; 'Dej vu, all over again', again: reinvention and progress in applying local knowledge to development; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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