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03020aam a2200469 i 4500 001 161EBF0679F111E483621AAFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141202010131 008 140702s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014009618 020 $a 1137435917 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781137435910 (pbk.) 020 $a 1137435909 (hbk.) 020 $a 9781137435903 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)880757005 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d IG# $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YAM $d SILO 050 00 $a GN476.7 $b .H46 2014 082 00 $a 500.89 $2 23 084 $a SOC002000 $a SCI034000 $a SOC002000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hendry, Joy. 245 10 $a Science and sustainability : $b learning from indigenous wisdom / $c Joy Hendry. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 199 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "This book is about indigenous science: sustainable knowledge and practice of Indigenous peoples around the world which has usually been developed and handed down for generations, but which was often largely ignored by settlers in their lands. Such science has been passed on in performance, art, stories, and in embodied practice, so the book will necessarily examine the meaning of science, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name, and drawing attention to some of its shortcomings. Methods of acquiring "science" are also examined, notably including a personal account of the author's dissatisfaction with her own undergraduate training, and a realization much later of the reasons for this disillusionment. Throughout the book, the author takes the reader with her on the learning process that brought its content to her attention, and therefore introduces the reasons for wanting to share the examples gathered"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. Fire and water : sustaining the land -- 2. Making a sustainable living -- 3. Architecture and house building -- 4. Health and death -- 5. Calendars and climate change -- 6. Astronomy and navigation skills -- 7. Physics and mathematics -- 8. Technology and sustainability -- 9. Facing both ways : possibilities for bicultural education and science -- Conclusion : "Seeing through both eyes." 650 0 $a Indigenous peoples $x Ecology. 650 0 $a Ethnoscience. 650 0 $a Traditional ecological knowledge. 650 0 $a Ethnophilosophy. 650 0 $a Science $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Science $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Sustainability. 650 0 $a Sustainable living. 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Environmental Science. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SCIENCE / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017013201.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103042830.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=161EBF0679F111E483621AAFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search