Science and Sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : Learning from Indigenous Wisdom / / by J. Hendry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910673097803321
• Autore: Hendry J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-137-43591-7; 1-137-43590-9; 1-137-43006-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Classificazione: SCI026000SCI034000SOC002000
• Disciplina: 500.89
• Soggetti: Sustainable development; Ethnology; History; Environmental sciences; Environmental sociology; Sustainable Development; Social Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; History of Science; Environmental Science and Engineering; Environmental Sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Introduction; Science; Stories, Art, and Performance; Indigenous Wisdom and Acknowledging My Support; 1 Fire and Water: Sustaining the Land; Fire as Friend or Foe?; The Power of Water; 2 Making a Sustainable Living; The Three Sisters; Living Sustainably; Is This Science?; Muttonbirding in Stewart Island; 3 Architecture and House Building; The Isle of Lewis Black House; Indigenous Perspectives in Modern Architecture; Holistic Thinking about Building; The Architecture of the Inuit Parliament and Cathedral; 4 Health and Death; The Green CreamAboriginal Health Studies at Melbourne; Ma-ori Theories of Healing; Death; 5 Calendars and Climate Change; 32 Phases of the Moon; Indigenous Calendars in Australia; Climate Change and the Value of Indigenous Knowledge; 6 Astronomy and Navigation Skills; Astronomy; Navigating the Sea; 7 Physics and Mathematics; Physics; Multiple Realities; 8 Technology and Sustainability; Continuing Indigenous Technology; Facility with Introduced Technology; The Indigital Revolution; 9 Facing Both Ways: Possibilities for Bicultural Education and Science; Felavai, or Interweaving, as a Model; The Medicine Wheel as a Model"Both Ways" Education; Conclusion: "Seeing through Both Eyes"; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name.