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UNINA9910790102403321 |
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Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III |
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Athens, OH, : Ohio University Press, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GordonDavid M. <1970-> |
KrechShepard, III, <1944-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Africa |
Traditional ecological knowledge - Africa |
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - North America |
Traditional ecological knowledge - North America |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; Introcution: Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment; Part I: Middle Ground; Chapter 1: Looking Like a White Man; Chapter 2: On Biomedicine, Transfers of Knowledge, and MalariaTreatments in Eastern North America and Tropical Africa; Chapter 3: Indigenous Ethnoornithology in the American South; Chapter 4: Nation-Building Knowledge; Part II: Conflict; Chapter 5: Locust Invasions and Tensions over Environmental and Bodily Health in the Colonial Transkei; Chapter 6: Navajos, New Dealers, and the Metaphysics of Nature; Chapter 7: Cherokee Medicine and the 1824 Smallpox Epidemic |
Part III: Environmental ReligionChapter 8: Spirit of the Salmon; Chapter 9: Indigenous Spirits; Chapter 10: Recruiting Nature; Part IV: Resource Rights; Chapter 11: Marine Tenure of the Makahs; Chapter 12: Reinventing "Traditional" Medicine in Postapartheid South Africa; Chapter 13: Dilemmas of "Indigenous Tenure" in South Africa; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, |
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