Local science vs. global science
Subtitle: approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development
By: edited by Paul Sillitoe.
Contributors: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology -- v. 4.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781845450144
Subjects: Ethnoscience -- Developing countries.; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Developing countries.; Technical assistance -- Anthropological aspects -- Developing countries.; Community development -- Developing countries.; Applied anthropology -- Developing countries.; Natural resources management areas -- Developing countries.
Other titles: Local science versus global science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Local science vs. global science : an overview / Paul Sillitoe; title: Traditional medical knowledge and twenty-first century healthcare / Gerard Bodeker; title: Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen; title: 'Indigenous' and 'scientific' knowledge in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin R. Smith; title: On knowing and not knowing : the many valuations of Piaroa local knowledge / Serena Heckler; title: The Ashkui project : linking western science and Innu environmental knowledge in creating a sustainable environment / Trudy Sable with Geoff Howell, Dave Wilson, and Peter Penashue; title: Globalisation and the construction of western and non-western knowledge / Michael R. Dove ... [et al.]; title: Science and local knowledge in Sri Lanka : extension, rubber and farming / Mariella Marzano; title: Creating natural knowledge : agriculture, science and experiments / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher; title: Is intellectual property protection a good idea? / Charles Clift; title: Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development : ontology, epistemology and praxis / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri; title: Forgotten futures : scientific models vs. local visions of land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Virginia Nazarea; title: Counting on local knowledge / Paul Sillitoe.