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Title:

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

Publisher:

Berghahn Books,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xi, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnoscience--Developing countries.
Indigenous peoples--Ecology--Developing countries.
Technical assistance--Anthropological aspects--Developing countries.
Community development--Developing countries.
Applied anthropology--Developing countries.
Natural resources management areas--Developing countries.

Other Authors:

Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Local science vs. global science : an overview / Paul Sillitoe -- Traditional medical knowledge and twenty-first century healthcare / Gerard Bodeker -- Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen -- 'Indigenous' and 'scientific' knowledge in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin R. Smith -- On knowing and not knowing : the many valuations of Piaroa local knowledge / Serena Heckler -- The Ashkui project : linking western science and Innu environmental knowledge in creating a sustainable environment / Trudy Sable with Geoff Howell, Dave Wilson, and Peter Penashue -- Globalisation and the construction of western and non-western knowledge / Michael R. Dove ... [et al.] -- Science and local knowledge in Sri Lanka : extension, rubber and farming / Mariella Marzano -- Creating natural knowledge : agriculture, science and experiments / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher -- Is intellectual property protection a good idea? / Charles Clift -- Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development : ontology, epistemology and praxis / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri -- Forgotten futures : scientific models vs. local visions of land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Virginia Nazarea -- Counting on local knowledge / Paul Sillitoe.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 4

ISBN:

1845450140
9781845450144
9781845450144 (alk. paper)
1845450140 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70158418

LCCN:

2006019694

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)