LEADER 03787nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910790102403321 005 20220831174320.0 010 $a0-8214-4411-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187176 035 $a(EBL)1743716 035 $a(OCoLC)787846309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404575 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10655505 035 $a(PQKB)11185101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743716 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17785 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539259 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187176 100 $a20111003d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aIndigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III 210 $aAthens, OH $cOhio University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 225 1 $aOhio University Press Series in Ecology and History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2079-8 311 $a0-8214-1996-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments; 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 327 $aPart 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 330 $aIndigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic 410 0$aOhio University Press series in ecology and history. 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xEcology$zAfrica 606 $aTraditional ecological knowledge$zAfrica 606 $aIndigenous peoples$xEcology$zNorth America 606 $aTraditional ecological knowledge$zNorth America 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xEcology 615 0$aTraditional ecological knowledge 615 0$aIndigenous peoples$xEcology 615 0$aTraditional ecological knowledge 676 $a304.2096 701 $aGordon$b David M.$f1970-$01150288 701 $aKrech$b Shepard$cIII,$f1944-$01480875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790102403321 996 $aIndigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America$93697682 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$45.48$u10/04/2018$5Soc