Development and local knowledge : new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture / / edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450322203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-36817-8; 0-415-31826-2; 1-280-07566-X; 0-203-60644-2
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 222 p. : ill., maps
• Collana: Studies in environmental anthropology ; ; v. 9
• Altri autori (Persone): BickerAlan; SillitoePaul <1949->; PottierJohan
• Disciplina: 307.1/4
• Soggetti: 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; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 Introduction -- Hunting for theory, gathering ideology / Paul Sillitoe -- chapter 2 Powerful knowledge -- Applications in a cultural context / Michael Fischer -- chapter 3 Management of knowledge and social transformation -- A case study from Guatemala / Hans Siebers -- chapter 4 Indigenous knowledge confronts development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea / Pamela J. Stewart -- chapter 5 The knowledge of indigenous desire. Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea -- Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea Talk of indigenous knowledge / Colin Filer -- chapter 6 Close encounters of the Third World kind: ; Indigenous knowledge and relations to land -- Indigenous knowledge and relations to / Veronica Strang -- chapter 7 International animation -- UNESCO, biodiversity and sacred sites / Terence Hay-Edie -- chapter 8 The globalization of indigenous rights in Tanzanian pastoralist NGOs / Greg Cameron -- chapter 9 Domestic animal diversity, local knowledge and stockraiser rights / Ilse K�hler-Rollefson -- chapter 10 Sandy-clay or clayey-sand? Mapping indigenous and scientific soil knowledge on the Bangladesh oodplains -- Mapping indigenous and scientific soil knowledge on the Bangladesh floodplains / Paul Sillitoe -- chapter 11 Keeping tradition in good repair -- The evolution of indigenous knowledge and the dilemma of development among pastoralists / Paul Spencer.