Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 082141996X ISBN 13 : 9780821419960

Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2012

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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artefacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as indigenous resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a middle ground of intellectual exchanges between colonisers and colonised; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated with European colonialism.

Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 082141996X
• ISBN 13: 9780821419960
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368