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