Local science vs. global science : approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development / edited by Paul Sillitoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 4.

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 4

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:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered "primitive" and in ne

Contents:

Local Science vs. Global Science; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Local Science vs. Global Science; Chapter 2. Traditional Medical Knowledge and Twenty-first Century Healthcare; Chapter 3. Local and Scientific Understanding of Forest Diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia; Chapter 4. 'Indigenous' and 'Scientific' Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula; Chapter 5. On Knowing and Not Knowing; Chapter 6. The Ashkui Project; Chapter 7. Globalisation and the Construction of Western and Non-Western Knowledge

Chapter 8. Science and Local Knowledge in Sri LankaChapter 9. Creating Natural Knowledge; Chapter 10. Is Intellectual Property Protection a Good Idea?; Chapter 11. Farmer Knowledge and Scientist Knowledge in Sustainable Agricultural Development; Chapter 12. Forgotten Futures; Chapter 13. Counting on Local Knowledge; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782382102

1782382100

OCLC:

861080596