ISBN:
1782382100
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9781782382102
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 288 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology volume 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Local science vs. global science
Keywords:
Ethnoscience
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Indigenous peoples Ecology
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Technical assistance Anthropological aspects
;
Community development
;
Applied anthropology
;
Natural resources management areas
;
REFERENCE ; Questions & Answers
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SCIENCE ; Environmental Science
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Applied anthropology
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Community development
;
Ethnoscience
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Ethnoecology
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Natural resources management areas
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Technical assistance ; Anthropological aspects
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Angewandte Anthropologie
;
Indigenes Volk
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Landwirtschaft
;
Lokales Wissen
;
Natürliche Ressourcen
;
Ökologie
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Humanökologie
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Nachhaltigkeit
;
Milieuvraagstuk
;
Inheemse volken
;
Lokale kennis
;
Entwicklungsländer
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Developing countries
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"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Local science vs. global science : an overview / Paul Sillitoe -- Traditional medical knowledge and twenty-first century healthcare / Gerard Bodeker -- Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen -- 'Indigenous' and 'scientific' knowledge in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin R. Smith -- On knowing and not knowing : the many valuations of Piaroa local knowledge / Serena Heckler -- The Ashkui project : linking western science and Innu environmental knowledge in creating a sustainable environment / Trudy Sable with Geoff Howell, Dave Wilson, and Peter Penashue -- Globalisation and the construction of western and non-western knowledge / Michael R. Dove [and others] -- Science and local knowledge in Sri Lanka : extension, rubber and farming / Mariella Marzano -- Creating natural knowledge : agriculture, science and experiments / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher -- Is intellectual property protection a good idea? / Charles Clift -- Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development : ontology, epistemology and praxis / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri -- Forgotten futures : scientific models vs. local visions of land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Virginia Nazarea -- Counting on local knowledge / Paul Sillitoe.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction
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