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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America (Hardcover, New)
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America (Hardcover, New)
Series: Series in Ecology and History
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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles
for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often
viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts.
This collection draws from African and North American cases to
argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous"
resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during
and after colonial encounters.
At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of
intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere,
indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle.
The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms
of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed
to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated
with European colonialism.
"Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment" offers comparative and
transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging
indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result
is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges
can and should relate to environmental policy-making.
Contributors: David Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen
Flint, David M. Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua
Reid, Parker Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A.
Webb, Jr., Marsha Weisiger
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