Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations:critical anthropological perspectives

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Ellen R. F., 1947-; Parkes Peter, anthropologist.; Bicker Alan.
Published: Harwood Academic,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam
Publication Dates: c2000.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 5
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Carrier Form: xiii, 356 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9057024837
Index Number: Q982
CLC: Q982-1
C912.4-1
Call Number: C912.4-1/I399
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethnobiology, and ethnoecology in the context of national laws and international agreements affecting indigenous and local knowledge, traditional resources and intellectual property rights / Darrell Addison Posey -- 'We wander in our ancestors' yard': sea cucumber gathering in Aru, eastern Indonesia / Manon Osseweijer -- The construction and destruction of 'indigenous' knowledge in India's joint Forest Management Programme / Nandini Sundar -- Claims to knowledge, claims to control: environmental conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India / Amita Baviskar -- Locating indigenous environmental knowledge in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- 'Indigenous' regionalism in Japan / John Knight -- The use of fire in northeastern Luzon (Philippines): conflicting views of local people, scientists and government officials / Andres Masipiqueña, Gerard A. Persoon, Denyse J. Snelder -- The life-cycle of indigenous knowledge, and the case of natural rubber production / Michael R. Dove -- Enclaved knowledge: indigent and indignant representations of environmental management and development among the Kalasha of Pakistan / Peter Parkes -- Endangered forest, endangered people: environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge / J. Peter Brosius -- Indigenous knowledge: prospects and limitations / Arne Kalland.