03787nam 2200661Ia 450 991079010240332120220831174320.00-8214-4411-5(CKB)2670000000187176(EBL)1743716(OCoLC)787846309(SSID)ssj0000652685(PQKBManifestationID)11404575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652685(PQKBWorkID)10655505(PQKB)11185101(MiAaPQ)EBC1743716(MdBmJHUP)muse17785(Au-PeEL)EBL1743716(CaPaEBR)ebr10539259(EXLCZ)99267000000018717620111003d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIndigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America[electronic resource] /edited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech IIIAthens, OH Ohio University Pressc20121 online resource (345 p.)Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2079-8 0-8214-1996-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 EpidemicPart 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; IndexIndigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. 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 colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflicOhio University Press series in ecology and history.Indigenous peoplesEcologyAfricaTraditional ecological knowledgeAfricaIndigenous peoplesEcologyNorth AmericaTraditional ecological knowledgeNorth AmericaIndigenous peoplesEcologyTraditional ecological knowledgeIndigenous peoplesEcologyTraditional ecological knowledge304.2096Gordon David M.1970-1150288Krech ShepardIII,1944-1480875MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790102403321Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America3697682UNINA$45.4810/04/2018Soc