Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America (Paperback)

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 \u201cindigenous\u201d resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a \u201cmiddle ground\u201d 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

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Ecology and History
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2012
Editors:	David M. Gordon • Shepard Krech III
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2079-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8214-2079-8
Barcode:	9780821420799

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