Traditional ecological knowledge : learning from indigenous practices for environmental sustainability / edited by Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Melissa K., editor.

Shilling, Dan, 1949- editor.

Series:

New directions in sustainability and society.

New directions in sustainability and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--North America.

Indigenous peoples.

Traditional ecological knowledge--North America.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Conservation of natural resources--North America.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indigenous and ecological knowledge production and maintenance, they focus on how environmental values and ethics are applied to the uses of land. Grounded in an understanding of the profound relationship between biological and cultural diversity, this book defines, interrogates, and problematizes, the many definitions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainability. It includes a holistic and broad disciplinary approach to sustainability, including language, art, and ceremony, as critical ways to maintain healthy human-environment relations.

Contents:

part I. Introduction to key concepts and questions. 1. Introduction: The soul of sustainability / ǂr Dan Shilling ; 2. Native science and sustaining indigenous communities / Gregory Cajete ; 3. Mishkos Kenomagwen, the lessons of grass : restoring reciprocity with the good green earth / Robin Wall Kimmerer ; 4. What do indigenous knowledges do for indigenous peoples? / Kyle Whyte

part II. Bedrock : toward a kincentric ethic. 5. Indigenous sustainability : language, community wholeness, and solidarity / Simon Ortiz ; 6. A single strand : the nsyilxcin speaking people's tmixw knowledge as a model for sustaining a life-force place / Jeannette Armstrong ; 7. Toward a philosophical understanding of TEK and ecofeminism / Joan McGregor ; 8. Wolves and ravens, science and ethics : traditional ecological knowledge meets long-term ecological research / Michael Paul Nelson and John A. Vucetich

part III. Extended web : land-care practices and plant and animal relationships. 9. Redefining sustainability through kincentric ecology : reclaiming indigenous lands, knowledge, and ethics / Dennis Martinez ; 10. Indigenous food sovereignty in Canada / Priscilla Settee ; 11. The radiant life with animals / Linda Hogan

part IV. Global and legal implications of indigenous sustainability. 12. Home : resistance, resilience, and innovation in Māori economies of well-being / Rachel Wolfgramm, Chellie Spiller, Carla Houkamau, and Manuka Henare ; 13. Indigenous peoples and "cultural sustainability" : the role of law and traditional knowledge / Rebecca Tsosie ; 14. Conclusion: Back in our tracks embodying kinship as if the future mattered / Melissa K. Nelson.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108552998

1-108-63562-8

1-108-55299-4

1-108-60272-X

OCLC:

1054911344