Title: Investigating local knowledge : new directions, new approaches /
Authors: Bicker, Alan.; Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-; Pottier, Johan.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Ethnoscience.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Traditional ecological knowledge
Abstract: "This book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments, devising mechanisms to conserve and sustain their natural resources, and establishing community-based organizations that serve as forums for identifying problems and dealing with them through local-level experimentation, innovation, and exchange of information with other societies. These studies show that development activities that work with and through local knowledge and organizations have several important advantages over projects that operate outside them. Local knowledge informs grassroots decision-making, much of which takes place through indigenous organizations and associations at the community level as people seek to identify and determine solutions to their problems."--Jacket.
Contents: Local knowledge theory and methods / Christoph Antweiler -- Doing and knowing / Andrew P. Vayda, Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati -- A decision model for the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into development projects / Paul Sillitoe and Julian Barr -- Triangulation with técnicos / Jeffery W. Bentley [and others] -- Local history as 'indigenous knowledge' / David Ellis and Paige West -- The INGO, the project, and the investigation of 'indigenous knowledge' / Sebastian Taylor -- Indigenous views on the terms of participation in the development of biodiversity conservation in Nepal / Ben Campbell -- Negotiating change, maintaining continuity / Trudy Sable -- The re-emergence of traditional medicine and health care in post-colonial India and national identity / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- In dialogue with indigenous knowledge / R. Baumgartner [and others].