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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge - Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge - Reappraisal (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope
and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that
in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and
water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well
deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider
imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably
some aspects of health care and wild-species population management,
local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the
difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from
external factors outside their control. However in either case,
remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes,
especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be
taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The
possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings
to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book's
final chapter.
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