Local science vs. global science : approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development /

"While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing reali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sillitoe, Paul, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Colección:Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 4.
Temas:
Ethnoscience > Developing countries.
Ethnoecology > Developing countries.
Technical assistance > Anthropological aspects > Developing countries.
Community development > Developing countries.
Applied anthropology > Developing countries.
Natural resources management areas > Developing countries.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Applied anthropology
Community development
Ethnoscience
Ethnoecology
Natural resources management areas
Technical assistance > Anthropological aspects
Angewandte Anthropologie
Indigenes Volk
Landwirtschaft
Lokales Wissen
Natürliche Ressourcen
Ökologie
Humanökologie
Nachhaltigkeit
Milieuvraagstuk.
Inheemse volken.
Lokale kennis.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Local science vs. global science : an overview / Paul Sillitoe
  • Traditional medical knowledge and twenty-first century healthcare / Gerard Bodeker
  • Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen
  • 'Indigenous' and 'scientific' knowledge in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin R. Smith
  • On knowing and not knowing : the many valuations of Piaroa local knowledge / Serena Heckler
  • 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
  • Globalisation and the construction of western and non-western knowledge / Michael R. Dove [and others]
  • Science and local knowledge in Sri Lanka : extension, rubber and farming / Mariella Marzano
  • Creating natural knowledge : agriculture, science and experiments / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher
  • Is intellectual property protection a good idea? / Charles Clift
  • Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development : ontology, epistemology and praxis / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
  • Forgotten futures : scientific models vs. local visions of land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Virginia Nazarea
  • Counting on local knowledge / Paul Sillitoe.

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