Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations
Subtitle: critical anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, Alan Bicker.
Contributors: Ellen, R. F., 1947-; Parkes, Peter, anthropologist.; Bicker, Alan.
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology,; v. 5
Publisher: Harwood Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Ecology.; Ethnoscience.; Ethnobiology.; Ecology -- Philosophy.; Anthropologie -- Aspect de l'environnement; Ethnoscience; Ethnologie -- Philosophie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnobiology and ethnoecology in the context of national laws and international agreements affecting indigenous and local knowledge, traditional resources and intellectual property rights / Darrell Addison Posey; title: 'We wander in our ancestors' yard': sea cucumber gathering in Aru, eastern Indonesia / Manon Osseweijer; title: The construction and destruction of 'indigenous' knowledge in India's Joint Forest Management programme / Nandini Sundar; title: Claims to knowledge, claims to control : environmental conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India / Amita Baviskar; title: Locating indigenous environmental knowledge in Indonesia / Tania     Murray Li; title: 'Indigenous' regionalism in Japan / John Knight; title: The use of fire in northeastern Luzon (Philippines) : conflicting views of local people, scientists and government officials / Andres Masipiqueña, Gerard A. Persoon, and Denyse J. Snelder; title: The life-cycle of indigenous knowledge, and the case of natural rubber production / Michael R. Dove; title: Enclaved knowledge : indigent and indignant representations of environmental management and development among the Kalasha of Pakistan / Peter Parkes; title: Endangered forest, endangered people : environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge / J. Peter Brosius; title: Indigenous knowledge : prospects and limitations / Arne Kalland.