Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives / Edition 1

by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes

Overview

The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. 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. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789057024849
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/08/2000
Series:	Studies in Environmental Anthropology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Plates and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology in the Context of National Laws and International Agreements Affecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Traditional Resources and Intellectual Property Rights, Chapter 2 ‘We Wander in our Ancestors’ Yard’: Sea Cucumber Gathering in Aru, Eastern Indonesia, Chapter 3 The Construction and Destruction of ‘Indigenous’ Knowledge in India’s Joint Forest Management Programme, Chapter 4 Claims to Knowledge, Claims to Control: Environmental Conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India, Chapter 5 Locating Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Indonesia, Chapter 6 ‘Indigenous’ Regionalism in Japan, Chapter 7 The Use of Fire in Northeastern Luzon (Philippines): Conflicting Views of Local People, Scientists and Government Officials, Chapter 8 The Life-Cycle of Indigenous Knowledge, and the Case of Natural Rubber Production, Chapter 9 Enclaved Knowledge: Indigent and Indignant Representations of Environmental Management and Development among the Kalasha of Pakistan, Chapter 10 Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge, Chapter 11 Indigenous Knowledge: Prospects and Limitations, Index

Editorial Reviews

'Excellent, thoughtful, challenging papers ... Overall, the book documents many cases of misuse and abuse of 'IK' and explains with insight problems with the concept ... Recommended for professionals and development workers.' - CHOICE

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