Lore
Subtitle: capturing traditional environmental knowledge
By: edited by Martha Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, Martha; Dene Cultural Institute (Yellowknife, N.W.T.); International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: Dene Cultural Institute; International Development Research Centre
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Human ecology -- Congresses.; Environmental protection -- Congresses.; Conservation of natural resources -- Congresses.; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
Description: This book examines the process of collecting traditional environmental knowledge while using a "participatory action" or "community-based" approach. It looks at the problems associated with documenting traditional knowledge - problems that are shared by researchers around the world - and it explores some of the means by which traditional knowledge can be integrated with Western science to improve methods of natural resource management. Includes the Dene of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, and the Inuit of Sanikiluaq, Belcher Islands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Proceedings of a conference held July 23-27, 1990, in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.