Development and local knowledge : new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture / edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bicker, Alan.

Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-

Pottier, Johan.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 9.

Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoscience--Developing countries.

Ethnoscience.

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Developing countries.

Indigenous peoples.

Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects--Developing countries.

Technical assistance.

Community development--Developing countries.

Community development.

Applied anthropology--Developing countries.

Applied anthropology.

Natural resources management areas--Developing countries.

Natural resources management areas.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction

Hunting for theory, gathering ideology / Paul Sillitoe

chapter 2 Powerful knowledge

Applications in a cultural context / Michael Fischer

chapter 3 Management of knowledge and social transformation

A case study from Guatemala / Hans Siebers

chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge confronts development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea / Pamela J. Stewart

chapter 5 The knowledge of indigenous desire. Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea

Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea Talk of indigenous knowledge / Colin Filer

chapter 6 Close encounters of the Third World kind: Indigenous knowledge and relations to land

Indigenous knowledge and relations to / Veronica Strang

chapter 7 International animation

UNESCO, biodiversity and sacred sites / Terence Hay-Edie

chapter 8 The globalization of indigenous rights in Tanzanian pastoralist NGOs / Greg Cameron

chapter 9 Domestic animal diversity, local knowledge and stockraiser rights / Ilse K�hler-Rollefson

chapter 10 Sandy-clay or clayey-sand? Mapping indigenous and scientific soil knowledge on the Bangladesh oodplains

Mapping indigenous and scientific soil knowledge on the Bangladesh floodplains / Paul Sillitoe

chapter 11 Keeping tradition in good repair

The evolution of indigenous knowledge and the dilemma of development among pastoralists / Paul Spencer.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-36816-X

1-134-36817-8

0-415-31826-2

1-280-07566-X

0-203-60644-2

OCLC:

56545403