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Umfang: 1 online resource (302 p.)

ISBN: 9781782382102

Serie: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 4

Inhalt: While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered “primitive” and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others’ knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , List of Tables -- , Acknowledgements -- , List of Contributors -- , 1. Local Science vs. Global Science: an Overview -- , 2. Traditional Medical Knowledge and Twenty-first Century Healthcare: the Interface between Indigenous and Modern Science -- , 3. Local and Scientific Understanding of Forest Diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia -- , 4. ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula -- , 5. On Knowing and Not Knowing: the Many Valuations of Piaroa Local Knowledge -- , 6. The Ashkui Project: Linking Western Science and Innu Environmental Knowledge in Creating a Sustainable Environment -- , 7. Globalisation and the Construction of Western and Non-Western Knowledge -- , 8. Science and Local Knowledge in Sri Lanka: Extension, Rubber and Farming -- , 9. Creating Natural Knowledge: Agriculture, Science and Experiments -- , 10. Is Intellectual Property Protection a Good Idea? -- , 11. Farmer Knowledge and Scientist Knowledge in Sustainable Agricultural Development: Ontology, Epistemology and Praxis -- , 12. Forgotten Futures: Scientific Models vs. Local Visions of Land Use Change -- , 13. Counting on Local Knowledge -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781782382102

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382102

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382102

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382102

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382102

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 288 pages) , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 9781782382102 , 1782382100

Serie: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology volume 4

Inhalt: "While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered 'primitive' and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others' knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts"--Provided by publisher

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , 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 [and others] -- 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.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781845450144

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1845450140

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9781845456481

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1845456483

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Local science vs. global science ISBN 1845450140

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Ethnologie , Soziologie

Schlagwort(e): Aufsatzsammlung

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