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Author:

Pierotti, Raymond John

Title:

Indigenous knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology / Raymond Pierotti.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011 ie. 2010, c2011.

Description:

xv, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indigenous peoples--Ecology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.
Ethnoscience
Evolution (Biology)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index.

Contents:

Defining traditional ecological knowledge -- All things are connected : communities as both ecological and social entities in Indigenous American thought -- Predators not prey : "wolves of creation" rather than "lambs of God" -- Metaphors and models : indigenous knowledge and evolutionary ecology -- Cultural and biological creation and the concept of relatedness -- Applying principles of TEK within the western scientific tradition -- Connected to the land : nature and spirit in Native American novels -- Ecological Indians : European imaginations and indigenous reality -- A critical comment on both western science and indigenous responses to the western scientific tradition -- Who speaks for the buffalo? : finding the indigenous in academia -- Traditional ecological knowledge : the third alternative.

Series:

Indigenous peoples and politics

ISBN:

0203847113 (ebk.)
9780203847114 (ebk.)
0415879248
9780415879248

OCLC:

(OCoLC)462927234

LCCN:

2010002845

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)